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Don't you hate those situations where two parties are involved in creating a solution and, when it doesn't work, each party blames the other and, on the face of it, they're both right?
This voltage-drop situation might be an important issue for a small number of people who decide to add some solar capacity to their house in an attempt to reduce their power bull while living in the country.
Areas which have seen an increase in the number of "lifestyle" blocks are even more likely to be affected as power companies try to squeeze the maximum numbers of consumers onto the minimum numbers of transformers as a way of saving costs.
In this case I suggested that the guy go totally off-grid rather than spend $40K to have his connection to the grid upgraded.
What do you think?
Have any readers had similar issues?