That's a great idea. We have buss bar in our parts room. Good lesson on buss bar sizing and install. Compare and contrast the two methods.
Thanks! Jesse Sent from my iPhone > On Aug 1, 2015, at 7:07 PM, "Tom at wagonmaker" <[email protected]> wrote: > > Jesse, > > I’d also add a good buss bar connection system for your battery banks, maybe > even do one set of series/parallel connections (old way) across the bank and > one set of connections with the series strings interconnected through buss > bars rather than direct string to string. Much better battery life that way > and the more people that learn to do it with buss bars from the beginning the > better. > > Tom Elliot > > From: [email protected] > Sent: Friday, July 31, 2015 11:29 AM > To: RE-wrenches > Subject: Re: [RE-wrenches] Dream system. > > Hi: > > I would add, > > 1. Battery Monitoring with logging capability > 2. Remote monitoring and control over the web > 3. Lion battery and battery manager, (open format manager circuits so that it > can be seen how things work). > 4. GFCI's and ELCI's on AC circuits > 5. Generator and automatic generator start controller > > If you suggestions on specific models, contact me offline > > JARMO > _____________________________________________________________________________________ > > > Jarmo Venalainen | Schneider Electric | Xantrex Brand | CANADA | > Sales Application Engineer > Phone: +604-422-2528 | Tech Support: 800-670-0707 | Mobile: > +604-505-0291 > Email: [email protected] | Site: www.Xantrex.com | > Address: 3700 Gilmore Way, Burnaby, BC V5G4M1 > > > > > > *** Please consider the environment before printing this e-mail > > > > From: Solar <[email protected]> > To: Wrenches <[email protected]>, > Date: 07/31/2015 02:05 PM > Subject: [RE-wrenches] Dream system. > Sent by: "RE-wrenches" <[email protected]> > > > > > Hello all, > > I was recently hired to be the full time electrical instructor at a local > community college. In the second year of the class there is a 6 credit > "renewable energy and habitat house" course. I have been teaching at this > college as an adjunct instructor since 2009 teaching for 3 of the 7 local > iron ore mines,the local paper mill as well as doing most of the NEC code > update courses. During that time I ran a one year and a 6 month solar PV > course. I have a fairly nice lab built for the PV course consisting of the > following: > > 2 axis tracker > Fixed tilt pole mount > 20'x16' mock roof with shingles and metal roofing > Enphase systems > (3) 700W SMA inverters > Outback setup > Xantrax 600v 80A charge controller > Magnum 4024 inverter (AC coupled goal with this) > Tigos > 300W Morningstar on a demo cart > Couple Solectria inverter (not used much) > Trace 4024 (purchased in 99) > Trace DR 1524 that goes along with our 1Kw Bergy > Multiple battery brands and types AGM and flooded > Pathfinders > Suneye (2 210s) > 600V Solmetric PVA > Racking, quickmounts standoffs, clamps nuts and bolts... > > > Modules include: 90W sunwize, Solarwolrd 175, REC 215W, silicon energy 190W, > kyocera 210W, solar frontier 100W (I think 100W) AEE 95W, Dasol 15, 30, 135w. > > Assuming I stay with this job for the next 25 years, which will take me into > my early 60s and my goal, I will have a yearly budget to spend adding to this > lab. > > Here is the question, seeing what we have now what individual pieces would > you add or what system would you build with the goal of community education > or training electrical students and electricians. > > Long winded but I am very interested to hear your ideas! > > Have a good weekend and thanks! > > Jesse > > > > Sent from my iPhone > _______________________________________________ > List sponsored by Redwood Alliance > > List Address: [email protected] > > Change listserver email address & settings: > http://lists.re-wrenches.org/options.cgi/re-wrenches-re-wrenches.org > > List-Archive: > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.html > > List rules & etiquette: > www.re-wrenches.org/etiquette.htm > > Check out or update participant bios: > www.members.re-wrenches.org > > > ______________________________________________________________________ > This email has been scanned by the Symantec Email Security.cloud service. > ______________________________________________________________________ > > > _______________________________________________ > List sponsored by Redwood Alliance > > List Address: [email protected] > > Change listserver email address & settings: > http://lists.re-wrenches.org/options.cgi/re-wrenches-re-wrenches.org > > List-Archive: > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.html > > List rules & etiquette: > www.re-wrenches.org/etiquette.htm > > Check out or update participant bios: > www.members.re-wrenches.org > > _______________________________________________ > List sponsored by Redwood Alliance > > List Address: [email protected] > > Change listserver email address & settings: > http://lists.re-wrenches.org/options.cgi/re-wrenches-re-wrenches.org > > List-Archive: > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.html > > List rules & etiquette: > www.re-wrenches.org/etiquette.htm > > Check out or update participant bios: > www.members.re-wrenches.org >
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