Why a Typical Home Solar Setup Does Not Work with the Grid Down

Re:Why a Typical Home Solar Setup Does Not Work with the Gri... by jjeaff on Thursday August 02, 2018 @01:45PM (#17673609)

Those make sense... except the hanging stuff on walls is a stretch. You'd have to use a 6" nail to manage to hit a wire or pipe behind the wall. Most likely, they just don't want lots of little holes in the walls.

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Re:Why a Typical Home Solar Setup Does Not Work with the Gri... by sathackr on Thursday August 02, 2018 @02:05PM (#17673851)

A person without knowledge of what is inside of a wall or why it could be a problem may indeed try to use a 6" nail to hang their picture.

There are plenty of people that don't understand(and probably don't want to understand) how things are connected. I doubt they think that the light switch magically turns on the light, or that the water magically comes from the valve attached to the wall, but the method, or desire to know the method, in which those things happen is just not in their world.

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Re:Why a Typical Home Solar Setup Does Not Work with the Gri... by mschuster91 on Thursday August 02, 2018 @02:11PM (#17673921)

> You'd have to use a 6" nail to manage to hit a wire or pipe behind the wall

Nope. There's a type of wire called "Stegleitung", essentially a flat cable. Often enough it's simply nailed into the wall, then a thin coat of mortar is applied on the wall, and then paint.

Source: zapped myself once by hitting such a cable.

In addition, the usual injury liability is a problem.

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