I also recently used the Tigo with Sol-Ark to provide the 12V signal with good success. The Tigo transmitter can also (barely) fit inside the Sol-Ark wiring compartment, so you do not need the whole Tigo enclosure for it. Cheers, Dave
On Mon, Jan 31, 2022 at 8:21 PM Kirpal <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi William. > We have had good luck with the AP Smart Rapid shutdown system. It is > similar to the Tigo in that it sends a "heartbeat" signal to the units up > behind each solar panel over the power wires. I haven't tried the Tigos yet > but would be open to it if the opportunity presented itself. The thing we > like about the AP Smart shutdown units is they can be attached to the solar > panels before the panels are brought up to the roof. Makes for a quick and > tidy installation. We found the Fire Raptor units with their incredible > amount of extra wiring and cables to be a real pain in the ass to install. > It typically takes longer to install the Fire Raptor units and manage the > wiring than it does to install the solar panels themselves. The fire > raptors are more expensive and require a seperate control wire to be run > upto the roof. We haven't had any failures on either the fire raptor or > the AP Smart units with probably a dozen installs of each style installed > to date. Brad Bassett at AEE has some great easy to use wiring diagrams > for both systems with Outback or Sol Ark. All the above systems have some > requirement for either 12V or 24V power to power the signal generator. We > typically use some version of din rail mounted 48-24v or12V power supply > and power it from the batteries so that if the inverter were to fail or the > grid the solar can still stay on.. At this stage we have settled on any of > the rapid shutdown systems except Fire Raptor. - if you do use the Fire > Raptor - calculate a bunch of extra time into the install for wire > management. > Hope that gives you some food for thought. > Cheers, > > Sunny Regards, > Kirpal Khalsa > Oregon LRT#25 > Oregon Solarworks LLC > www.oregonsolarworks.com > 541-299-0402 > > > >> >> _______________________________________________ > List sponsored by Redwood Alliance > > Pay optional member dues here: http://re-wrenches.org > > List Address: [email protected] > > Change listserver email address & settings: > http://lists.re-wrenches.org/options.cgi/re-wrenches-re-wrenches.org > > There are two list archives for searching. When one doesn't work, try the > other: > https://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > http://lists.re-wrenches.org/pipermail/re-wrenches-re-wrenches.org > > List rules & etiquette: > http://www.re-wrenches.org/etiquette.htm > > Check out or update participant bios: > http://www.members.re-wrenches.org > > -- [image: Logo] <https://www.sungineersolar.com/> Dave Tedeyan, P.E. Owner | Sungineer Solar p: he | him | his a: 1653 Slaterville Rd. | Ithaca, NY 14850 w: www.sungineersolar.com <http://www.sungineersolar.com/> c: (607) 288-2898
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