What is be worried about, other than the UL listing, would be how long will they last? I used a line of Chinese made Pv inverters (which were UL listed, Canadian company) and found, after installing hundreds of them, that they had upwards of 10% failure rate in the first 8 years. Replaced under warrantee, some multiple times, but still an incredible hassle. Not worth the initial savings for something that's supposed to last 25+ years. Now, I mostly use just the German ones, because I havent had to deal with failures with them.
Z On Wednesday, October 1, 2014, Ben Goren via EV <[email protected]> wrote: > On Oct 1, 2014, at 10:34 AM, David Kerzel via EV <[email protected] > <javascript:;>> wrote: > > > When You connect to the grid then the power company has say in anything > that can energies the power lines and they may require only listed devices. > > ...and, let's not forget: linemen have one of the roughest jobs, and > they're out there in the middle of wretched weather putting the grid back > together so we all can watch the TV news about how miserable the weather is > out there. They're heroes who're all too often unsung...and if you're > energizing a line that shouldn't have power on it, you could kill one of > them. > > Please, please, please don't connect _anything_ that generates power to > the grid until the power company has given it their blessing. It may seem > like petty bureaucratic bullshit, or serious overkill, or the like -- and > it may well be. But the guys doing the hard and dangerous work keeping the > lights on deserve our thanks, and the best way to thank them is to put up > with whatever nonsense the power company might ask before connecting > generating devices to the grid. > > Cheers, > > b& > -------------- next part -------------- > A non-text attachment was scrubbed... > Name: signature.asc > Type: application/pgp-signature > Size: 801 bytes > Desc: Message signed with OpenPGP using GPGMail > URL: < > http://lists.evdl.org/private.cgi/ev-evdl.org/attachments/20141001/3102feaa/attachment.pgp > > > _______________________________________________ > UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub > http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org > For EV drag racing discussion, please use NEDRA ( > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA) > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.evdl.org/private.cgi/ev-evdl.org/attachments/20141001/00097909/attachment.htm> _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org For EV drag racing discussion, please use NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA)
