• SaltySalamander@fedia.io
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      2 months ago

      No, because you can kill a lineman working on the downed line, who mistakenly thinks the line is dead and has no idea that you’re feeding power into it from your solar panel.

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        2 months ago

        I really feel like one of these store-bought solar panels wouldn’t put out enough electricity to kill someone

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          2 months ago

          You really don’t need a lot of power to kill someone, especially with AC you really don’t need much to induce ventricular fibrillation.

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          2 months ago

          A 120W panel at full sunlight easily has enough power to kill someone. That’s 1A at 120V, minus some conversion losses. 120W is pretty low end these days.

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        2 months ago

        Those inverters can’t backfeed, they need a grid to synchronise to.