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MIS 3012:2025 scope and classes, PAS 63100 siting, island-mode earthing, fire detection and where the EV charger sits relative to the CT.

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Gateway wiring or a CT clamp on meter tails
01

Battery siting checklist

Outdoors wherever practicable. Indoors only where PAS 63100 does not exclude it, with ventilation to outside and REI 30 separation from excluded…

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02

Backup gateways vs EPS: wiring and earthing

In island mode the house must become a TN-S system with its own earth electrode. Isolate every line and the neutral from the grid, never the grid…

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03

Setting export and generation limits

An export limit caps net power to the grid at the meter, enforced by a G100 scheme with a grid CT. A generation limit caps the inverters' total AC…

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04

Charge and discharge rates in system design

Capacity is only half the story; power matters too. A 20 kWh battery on a 5 kW inverter can only supply 5 kW, so when the house draws 7 kW, 2 kW…

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