Re: [RE-wrenches] Battery / no-battery

2011-10-27 Thread larry
That one is news to me but I can see a small value in it as an upgrade path.Larry Original Message Subject: [RE-wrenches] Battery / no-battery From: William Miller will...@millersolar.com Date: Wed, October 26, 2011 10:20 pm To: RE-wrenches re-wrenches@lists.re-wrenches.org

Re: [RE-wrenches] Battery / no-battery

2011-10-27 Thread Gary Willett
William: Like you, I'm unaware of an inverter that functions as grid tied/interactive, to which a battery bank can be added later to the same product. My guess is that Sunny Boy(s) would be installed first, followed by Sunny Island(s) if battery backup is wanted later. Same thing could be

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2011-10-27 Thread William Miller
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[RE-wrenches] XW on 120v

2011-10-27 Thread jay peltz
Hi All, I seem to remember that you can connect the XW inverters with 120v and they will battery charge. Anybody know for sure? thanks, jay Peltz power ___ List sponsored by Home Power magazine List Address: RE-wrenches@lists.re-wrenches.org

Re: [RE-wrenches] Battery / no-battery

2011-10-27 Thread penobscotsolar
Never heard of anything like that...a solar urban myth perhaps? At least for now.? Daryl htmlbodyspan style=font-family:Verdana; color:#00; font-size:10pt;divThat one is news to me but I can see a small value in it as an upgrade path.br/divdivbr/divdivLarrybr/div blockquote

Re: [RE-wrenches] XW on 120v

2011-10-27 Thread William Miller
Jay: I just got off the phone with Sandra Herrera, now with Xantrex. The subject we spoke of was charging an XW with 3 phase 120 phase angle. The answer to that scenario is no. One option she mentioned was charging with 120 VAC, so I guess the answer to your question is yes. BTW, I sent

Re: [RE-wrenches] Battery / no-battery

2011-10-27 Thread Nathan Jones
It can be done using AC coupling with the battery bank and battery based inverter added later. Nathan Jones Power Source Solar Inc. On Thu Oct 27th, 2011 10:36 AM CDT penobscotso...@midmaine.com wrote: Never heard of anything like that...a solar urban myth perhaps? At least for now.? Daryl

Re: [RE-wrenches] XW on 120v

2011-10-27 Thread Ken Schaal
When I asked tech support about this in order to use a 2000i generator for backup, the answer was 240 only. Ken - Original Message - From: jay peltz j...@asis.com To: RE-wrenches re-wrenches@lists.re-wrenches.org Sent: Thursday, October 27, 2011 2:34 PM Subject: [RE-wrenches] XW on

Re: [RE-wrenches] Battery / no-battery

2011-10-27 Thread b...@midnitesolar.com
On 10/27/2011 12:14 PM, Nathan Jones wrote: Gary, Sorry to interject on top of your previous reference to AC coupling. I had not read your post before replying. I am not aware of any way to use a single inverter for battery and non battery DC input. My thoughts with Williams first post was an

Re: [RE-wrenches] XW on 120v

2011-10-27 Thread Sandra . Herrera
Hello Jay, If the XW is already configured as a single phase 120V, then it will connect to a 120V generator. But if the XW is configured as 120/240V, then a single phase 120V generator will not work. _

Re: [RE-wrenches] XW on 120v

2011-10-27 Thread jay peltz
Hi Sandra, Where does it tell me in the manual I can/how to do this? And will this allow full power or 1/2 power? thanks, jay On Oct 27, 2011, at 1:05 PM, sandra.herr...@schneider-electric.com wrote: Hello Jay, If the XW is already configured as a single phase 120V, then it will

Re: [RE-wrenches] XW on 120v

2011-10-27 Thread maver...@mavericksolar.com
Jay, You need to download Addendum to the Install Manual 976-0222-01-01 rev B and perform the rewriting to 120Vac and install new software using the gateway or System Configuration Tool using 120v software. Let me know if you these off list and I can send them to you. Thank you, Maverick

[RE-wrenches] Connecting charge controller to grid tie inverter

2011-10-27 Thread Larry Crutcher, Starlight Solar Power Systems
Wrenches, I'm thinking out loud here: Could the new XW MPPT 80 600 be tied to the PV input side of a grid tie inverter simultaneously? I'm looking for a simple way to add a small battery and inverter to an existing grid tie for backup. I imagine the MPPT circuits on each device would conflict.

Re: [RE-wrenches] Battery / no-battery

2011-10-27 Thread David Katz
The Heart Transverter can be grid-tied with or without a battery, but it is not through UL yet. David Katz - Original Message - From: b...@midnitesolar.com [mailto:b...@midnitesolar.com] Sent: Thursday, October 27, 2011 12:27 PM To: RE-wrenches re-wrenches@lists.re-wrenches.org Subject: