We're researching low cost solar power systems, and we stumbled across a company out of Tx, offering a system that allows you to switch individual circuits between your service lines and solar. Sounds all well and good, but this is how they suggested to do it.
I think this idea is beyond terrible, however I lack the experience and anecdotal evidence necessary to come up with a compelling argument or alternative solution.
The question:
What (low cost) solutions are there that will allow us to be able to switch individual circuits between the two power sources?
Best Answer
If you are OK with manual transfer operation, what you're after is called a "select circuit" manual transfer switch -- they're pretty readily available, for anywhere up to 12-16 circuits. Reliance and Generac both make them.