Ray we are looking at pulling a grandfathered grid tied Dual SW4024 system and when we talked to the utility they were offering additional funds to at least put in the GTI box which was not available when this system did tie in many years back. They were very happy to hear that this system is probably going to get disconnected.
---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dana Orzel Great Solar Works, Inc - NABCEP # 051112-136 E - [email protected] - Web - solarwork.com O - 970.626.5253 C - 208.721.7003 "Responsible Technologies for Responsible People since 1988" Please consider the environment before printing this email. -----Original Message----- From: RE-wrenches [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Ray Walters Sent: Tuesday, February 09, 2016 2:34 PM To: RE-wrenches Subject: Re: [RE-wrenches] Old Net Metering Yea, I told her the old SWs were really inefficient at sell back, and she should just forget about net metering. However, apparently it is has an almost 10 kW array, and they used to get surplus checks back from the utility. This might be another reason why the utility doesn't want to reconnect it. I'm going to look at it Thursday. I'm quite comfortable dealing with the old SW inverters, I still have plenty of my old systems cranking away, but this reconnection issue of a legacy system is a new one on me. R.Ray Walters CTO, Solarray, Inc Nabcep Certified PV Installer, Licensed Master Electrician Solar Design Engineer 303 505-8760 On 2/9/2016 1:05 PM, Jeremy Rodriguez wrote: > I would put it in Float mode and let it offset the grid. > I don't think it would actually sell unless you select that from the grid use > menu. > If it's the SW, that is. > Study the owners manual > > Jeremy Rodriguez > Solar Installation And Design Expert > All Solar, Inc. > 1463 M St > Penrose Colorado 81240 > > Sent by Jeremy's iPhone. Sorry for typos and shorthand! > >> On Feb 9, 2016, at 12:23 PM, Ray Walters <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Greetings Esteemed Wrenches; >> >> I just received an interesting call from an owner of a late 1990s vintage >> GTB system here in Colorado. (Trace SW4048 I'm guessing) The tenants had >> disconnected the grid for almost 2 years and lived in the house off grid. >> They had also done many scary wiring "upgrades" using speaker wire out of >> the main AC load center. >> The tenants are gone, the AC load center was cleaned up, and the owner wants >> to reconnect the GT system, but the utility is not allowing it since they >> were disconnected for 2 years. I'm still trying to find out what the >> requirements are, but I wanted to ping the list and see what experience >> anyone had, and what requirements might be placed in this situation. >> It seems to me that this system should be grand fathered in and not >> be required to meet more than 1999 NEC, but I've never dealt with this >> scenario before. Requiring this to meet 2014 NEC would be insane, and even >> meeting 2008 NEC would be a deal killer, as the old SW inverters were not UL >> 1741 compliant. (wasn't even around in 1998 I believe) My plan was to >> inspect the entire system, retorque connections, perform any necessary >> repairs, and just confirm compliance with NEC 1999. There would be little >> point, if the utility or AHJ required compliance with a newer code though. >> >> Thanks as always for any assistance, >> >> -- >> R.Ray Walters >> CTO, Solarray, Inc >> Nabcep Certified PV Installer, >> Licensed Master Electrician >> Solar Design Engineer >> 303 505-8760 >> >> _______________________________________________ >> 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]/maillis >> t.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 > > _______________________________________________ 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
