Translations:Surge loads/3/en

The short duration of the required surge of current does not have an impact on energy consumption and therefore isn’t relevant to sizing the PV source or energy storage system. The surge of current is only relevant when sizing and selecting an inverter for a project as the inverter must have the capacity to supply this brief surge while still continuing to run critical loads – like a refrigerator – otherwise the inverter be overloaded and will shut down each time the surge load starts. For projects with infrequently used loads that have a large surge requirement it may make sense not to size and select an inverter to enable all loads to run at the same time. Shedding loads (turning off) some loads when one desires to use the load with the large surge requirement may greatly reduce the inverter size and cost.