Waiting for PTO feels like forever - couple of questions not related to PTO

[TheEmrys]

Yeah but if the system is Grid Tied then when the meter is swapped out the panels will stop producing until the inverter sees the grid again. Just thought I would throw that in.

Interesting. It is grid tied. Anything I should do? Or just accept that it will take a bit and be offline for a bit?

[Ampster]

Interesting. It is grid tied. Anything I should do? Or just accept that it will take a bit and be offline for a bit?

It might take five minutes. All they have to do is clip a security ring, remove the old meter and slide on the new meter. If it were me, I would turn off any large appliances or loads, so there is no surge when the new meter is put in the socket. Your inverter(s) will reboot automatically and that might take longer than replacing the meter.

[SunEagle]

Interesting. It is grid tied. Anything I should do? Or just accept that it will take a bit and be offline for a bit?

I believe Ampster has described what will and should happen. You should see a short outage but unless you have critical equipment without a UPS that outage should not hurt you.

[brycenesbitt]

Interesting. It is grid tied. Anything I should do? Or just accept that it will take a bit and be offline for a bit?

It's a non-event.
The installer may or not bother to shut off the large DC shutoffs that hopefully came with your system.
Either way the installer will be wearing arc flash gloves and a face shield, and will have done this before. Non issuse.
Generate away, and if they complain, plead ignorance.

Meter swaps take minutes at worst.

[SunEagle]

It's a non-event.
The installer may or not bother to shut off the large DC shutoffs that hopefully came with your system.
Either way the installer will be wearing arc flash gloves and a face shield, and will have done this before. Non issuse.
Generate away, and if they complain, plead ignorance.

If the inverter is looking for the grid to work then changing out the meter will make it stop for while until is again sees the grid. If the inverter is a hybrid and there are batteries the panels should continue to produce but if no hybrid or batteries the grid tie inverter will shut down for period of time.

[Mike 134]

It might take five minutes. All they have to do is clip a security ring, remove the old meter and slide on the new meter. If it were me, I would turn off any large appliances or loads, so there is no surge when the new meter is put in the socket. Your inverter(s) will reboot automatically and that might take longer than replacing the meter.

Depending on the utility company you may not have any outage while the meter is swapped. IF the meter socket has bypass horns he'll add jumpers around the meter so he can pull the old meter, take break then come back and put in the net meter and you'll never know it was done unless you looked.