http://www.examiner.com/x-432-Wedding-and-Marriage-Examiner~y2009m2d10-Our-wedding-anniversary-like-a-house-on-fire-literally
Search the page for "solar" to get to the crux of it, and .
P.S. Tempered glass won't melt, but clear plastic goop poured over the top of silicon cells (which can be seen littering the roof) will melt. These are probably homemade modules. What I see on the charred roof is consistent with plastic encapsulated modules burning and melting. Also, the racking is consistent with the first pre-fire photo.
These poor folks really got taken to the cleaners by their "installer" which MUST BE STOPPED.
Brian Sipp wrote at 06:17 PM 2/11/2009:
I may be very wrong here and I donât mean to impugn anyoneâs integrity, but donât forget that in this era of digital animation movies you canât always believe what you see in a photo either. (I'm sure no one here has ever Photoshopped a photo to make it more presentable looking.) I couldn't help but notice that the bottom right corner of the photo was surprisingly blurry and indistinct. It is difficult to distinguish one thing from the next, when just a few feet away but out of the range of detail in the photo, things seemed to be much clearer. Iâve never seen a photo look like that in reality. Itâs as if the roof and array have mysteriously melted together. Also, I have never seen tempered glass melt in a low temperature fire. If it were a high temperature fire the roof would not have survived. I think that a great deal of caution is warranted especially considering the lack of detail that the poster is giving about the panels, location, installer/supplier, existence of another array etc.
--- On Wed, 2/11/09, Allan Sindelar <[email protected]> wrote:
- From: Allan Sindelar <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: [RE-wrenches] Panel Fire
- To: "'RE-wrenches'" <[email protected]>
- Date: Wednesday, February 11, 2009, 12:57 PM
- One detail I haven't heard mentioned yet and am curious about - the photo of the fire damage appears to show the corner of another west(?)-facing array. I find it curious that the system owner described a 2 kW system made up of eight 250W(!) modules, which are clearly visible in the topmost system photo.
- There's just a whole lot that doesn't jive in this whole story. Scary to me.
- Allan at + NRG
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