Time will tell where the failure modes are. I still don't like all the eggs in one basket. Do you have to send the units back for repair? Had enough of that with Trace SW series inverters.. For off grid, I'll stick to the tried and true for now. For Grid tie it is just a financial hit. For off-grid power loss it is more important to deal with right away..
I am going to try a Fortress Envy at my off grid home but will keep my Outback field repairable VFXR wired in just in case. I had a massive lightning strike between my house and a guest cabin 1/4 mile away and I lost power from my Fortress Eflex battery at the cabin and my Outback inverter at my house. I replaced the control board on my inverter ( I always keep one in reserve as it is usually the only board failure due to lightning) and was back on line in 1/2 hour and Fortress rushed me a new BMS board for the E-flex and a day later and a half hour swap had it back in service, Now it is a different story with 2 Simpliphi batteries I have from a customer that failed. I have to ship them to California to have them evaluated to see if we had damaged them by misuse. Lots of expense and time lost. John Blittersdorf CV Wind Service / Off Grid Vermont 802-770-8625 On Tue, Apr 9, 2024 at 11:43 PM Scot Arey via RE-wrenches < re-wrenches@lists.re-wrenches.org> wrote: > Wow, are we in the golden age of inverter/chargers? If it had 200-a.p pass > thru it would be near perfect. > > Begs the question: are stand alone charge controllers becoming a > historical artifact? > > Howard "Scot" Arey > Owner, Solar CenTex > 254-300-1228 > _______________________________________________ > List sponsored by Redwood Alliance > > Pay optional member dues here: http://re-wrenches.org > > List Address: RE-wrenches@lists.re-wrenches.org > > Change listserver email address & settings: > http://lists.re-wrenches.org/options.cgi/re-wrenches-re-wrenches.org > > There are two list archives for searching. When one doesn't work, try the > other: > https://www.mail-archive.com/re-wrenches@lists.re-wrenches.org/ > http://lists.re-wrenches.org/pipermail/re-wrenches-re-wrenches.org > > List rules & etiquette: > http://www.re-wrenches.org/etiquette.htm > > Check out or update participant bios: > http://www.members.re-wrenches.org > >
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