Ray, Believe me when I say I have gone through all the exercises described so far by our esteemed colleagues. I think you will find the problem is with the customers transformer. I continue to make impressive amounts of kwh since the swap out last week.
Daryl > Battery bank is in great shape, is brand new HUP set. > > Thanks, > > R. Walters > [email protected] > Solar Engineer > > > > > On Mar 31, 2010, at 6:19 AM, [email protected] wrote: > >> Ask the customer to ck the cells for bubbling during the charging period >> to make sure the cells all are good OR Isolate the battery banks to make >> sure there isn't a dead cell the OBs are trying to charge. BB1 one day, >> BB2 the next & so on. >> Sent via BlackBerry by AT&T >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: R Ray Walters <[email protected]> >> Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2010 10:42:58 >> To: RE-wrenches<[email protected]> >> Subject: [RE-wrenches] Outback Grid Problems >> >> We currently have a Grid Tie system with a pair of Outback inverters >> that are regularly dropping out of sell mode, and letting the arrays >> spend all day charging the battery bank. >> It seems to do this several times a week, and the customer is losing >> substantial production, and gassing the batteries too much. >> It will reset itself the next day, or the customer resets it by turning >> off the inverters manually. >> The system is 24 v, with an old array of 1800 watts running through 2 >> FM60s, and a new array of 2800 watts running through another pair of >> FM60s. >> The battery bank is HUP about 4100 Ah @ 24 v (3 strings of 1375 Ah each) >> Big battery, I know, but the customer is an electrical engineer, who >> wanted maximum storage capacity. >> >> Outback tech support has not resolved the issue, and this has turned >> into several service calls, and customer frustration. >> We've tried running the controllers through the HUB, and also >> independently, and that doesn't make a difference. >> I have numerous Outback GT installs dating back to 2003, and have never >> had a problem like this. >> Any help or advice would as always be greatly appreciated. >> >> Thank you in advance fellow Wrenches, >> >> R. Walters >> [email protected] >> Solar Engineer >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> 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 >> >> _______________________________________________ >> 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 >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > 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 > > _______________________________________________ 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
