1. Shorted GRID detection (when the grid goes down..it looks like a dead short). 2. OPEN Grid detection (so you don't electrocute some poor lineman who thinks he just isolated your branch from the grid). 3. Permission from the power company. At 12:09 PM 6/10/01, you wrote: >What would be necessary for a device, besides syncronizing, to dump excess >power into the power grid, without blowing up my house? > >Gabriel > >-- >http://www.piclist.com hint: To leave the PICList >mailto:piclist-unsubscribe-request@mitvma.mit.edu Jerry Merrill jerrym@tech-tools.com http://www.tech-tools.com FAX: (972) 494-5814 VOICE:(972) 272-9392 TechTools PO Box 462101 Garland, TX 75046-2101 Join our PIC discussion list at http://www.tech-tools.com/picsource.htm -- http://www.piclist.com hint: To leave the PICList mailto:piclist-unsubscribe-request@mitvma.mit.edu