Golden Genesis questionOne thing, Golden Genesis was playing around with cadmium telluride thin film and they made a bunch of them, sending them to locations all over the world before they decided to cancel production. There was a huge array of them in an off-grid community west of Golden off I-70 called York Gulch (nothing organized, just an off-grid area where everyone had some alternative power source). That array ran a couple of 48 volt Trace inverters and powered a pretty good sized house.
When they shut down production the outfit that sold them the fabrication equipment bought back all the production equipment on the condition that they could also have all the modules that had been produced and were not in use. Sometime around the millenium they then put an ad in the Denver papers offering modules for sale pretty cheap and I purchased a truckload of them for practically nothing. The modules were 2'x2' square and extremely heavy. They also were made with untempered plate glass and could break if handled wrong. The panels had a 24 volt output but their power rating varied from panel to panel with the idea being to create a big array, measure the output and size for that. Not very handy from a design standpoint. The individual panels or small arrays of them made for great small systems, I used a couple of panels to charge the batteries for my trolling motor. Tom ----- Original Message ----- From: Allan Sindelar To: 'RE-wrenches' Sent: Sunday, November 23, 2008 10:59 AM Subject: [RE-wrenches] Golden Genesis question Old time Wrenches, I need a history lesson, please. We removed a Y2K system installed by someone else, before a home was put on the market. All equipment was resold. The array consisted of ten Golden Genesis 12V 120W modules. Six were sold with racks, but four went to one of our existing customers. I ordered a DP&W pole-top rack for them. When the time came to install them the rack didn't fit. We redrilled holes and it all went together, but I was ready to rake DP&W over the coals until I discovered that the mistake was mine: the terminal circuit board inside a j-box showed that these were actually Astropower AP120s. I had assumed that these were the common KC-120s of that time, that had been private-labeled with Golden Genesis' name. Golden Genesis was a Coors Brewing (of Golden, Colorado) spinoff that got into PV for a few years around that time. My understanding is that they bought the entire Photocomm name and distribution network, as well as played with thin-film development for awhile (gallium arsenide?). Photocomm had been the U.S. distributor for Kyocera for years. Eventually GG sold out to Kyocera USA, which is what we have now. Who can fill me in on all this? Joel? Allan Sindelar allan_(at)_positiveenergysolar.com NABCEP certified solar PV installer Positive Energy, Inc. 3225A Richards Lane Santa Fe NM 87507 505 424-1112 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ List sponsored by Home Power magazine List Address: [email protected] Options & settings: http://lists.re-wrenches.org/options.cgi/re-wrenches-re-wrenches.org List-Archive: http://lists.re-wrenches.org/pipermail/re-wrenches-re-wrenches.org List rules & etiquette: www.re-wrenches.org/etiquette.htm Check out participant bios: www.members.re-wrenches.org ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG - http://www.avg.com Version: 8.0.175 / Virus Database: 270.9.9/1808 - Release Date: 11/23/2008 6:59 PM
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