John,
Just curious if you had SPDs (like Midnites) in either
system? AC side, DC side
Bill
Feather River Solar Electric
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On 4/10/2024 6:01 AM, John Blittersdorf via RE-wrenches wrote:
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
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