Electric power from a hybrid, connecting inverter to the high-voltage system

I have seen some threads recently complaining about PM not working. I have received PMs in the past, but none since mid-May, it looks like. It's a feature I hardly ever use.

I think this topic is interesting, which is why I started this thread and collected links to all the other threads I could find where different approaches were being worked out. When I find new information on the topic, I try to add it here. I don't really try to add a lot of my personal opinion here.

But here's one: as for working on new specific approaches to this general thing, I'm not sure it wouldn't be best to start other threads specific to those approaches, work their details out there, and link to those threads here. That way this thread wouldn't get super long and tangled, and would stay mostly an introduction to the idea with links out to detailed threads.

 

What's the sticking point? Voltage too high?

 

A report of somebody doing this with a Midnite Classic solar gizmo.

 

For the newest readers, Randy's introduced back in the first post.

 

Such a system is possibly available stock in Gen 5.

 

And if you even manage to draw that much, you've shown the converter's published specs to be conservative, as they're 120 amps, or around 1.7KW, of which the car has to use at least 0.4KW, and you're also above the rating of both the 125 amp fuse in the front fuse box and the 140 amp in the battery clamp (if you're on the battery side of that).

So yes, for those levels of power, the kinds of solutions linked in this thread will be the ones of interest.