Re: [RE-wrenches] CIS mods

2013-02-19 Thread Doug Wells
Carl, Everything you said is true, but it does not answer the original question fully. It is more about the variation in electrical output than long term degradation. If I had to summarize it a different way it would be this. Flash testing a CIGS module to STC will give you certain voltages and

Re: [RE-wrenches] CIS mods

2013-02-19 Thread David Brearley
It is confusing that they refer to this as a light soaking effect. When we worked on this thin film article in SolarPro magazine a couple years ago, a researcher at NREL referred to this specific phenomenon as a dark soaking effect (see discussion under Performance Transients):

[RE-wrenches] Sunny boy monitoring

2013-02-19 Thread William Miller
Friends: I have a legacy client with a SB2500 remote from a residence. We are using a Control Light but it is becoming more and more unreliable. What experience do any of you have with PLC communications with the Sunny Boy using more modern equipment? Thanks in advance. William Miller

[RE-wrenches] Snow loads

2013-02-19 Thread Gary Bassett
Has anyone in the snow belt areas have any luck with convincing their local building inspectors that the snow melts or slides from panels, much like a metal roof only better. Thus your snow load would be reduced to zero where the panels have been installed. Gary

Re: [RE-wrenches] Snow loads

2013-02-19 Thread Will White
Most structural engineers I've seen take a reduction for slippery surface but I think you'd be stretching things to say adding PV panels reduces the load to zero. I have a 45 degree pitch roof and I get snow build up some times especially if we get freezing rain before the snow. Also if you

[RE-wrenches] Outback Inverter Radio Interference

2013-02-19 Thread Vince McClellan
Hello Wrenches I'm having an issue with a pair of Outback inverters producing electromagnetic interference with the low band radios at a site we installed recently. Other than a Faraday cage does anyone have any methods of reducing the EMI from Outback inverters? I've been looking in to

Re: [RE-wrenches] CIS mods

2013-02-19 Thread Michael Welch
Hi Marco. Try this link: http://1.usa.gov/W8m1bK Marco Mangelsdorf wrote at 07:15 PM 2/18/2013: I couldn’t get that link to work, Doug. Thanks. From: re-wrenches-boun...@lists.re-wrenches.org [ mailto:re-wrenches-boun...@lists.re-wrenches.org] On Behalf Of Doug Wells Sent: Monday, February

Re: [RE-wrenches] Outback Inverter Radio Interference

2013-02-19 Thread frank -bz products
Look into Amodon ferrite cores. On 2/19/2013 1:30 PM, Vince McClellan wrote: Hello Wrenches I'm having an issue with a pair of Outback inverters producing electromagnetic interference with the low band radios at a site we installed recently. Other than a Faraday cage does anyone have any

Re: [RE-wrenches] Snow loads

2013-02-19 Thread Bob-O Schultze
I would certainly agree with Will here. You can't make that argument as stated, it's wrong. Please don't try to make it to your AHJ, you take the chance of f-ing it up for everyone around there. I think the best argument you can try is: aside from the usual 3-4lbs/sq/ft that the array itself

Re: [RE-wrenches] Snow loads

2013-02-19 Thread toddcory
about 10 years ago - after a particularly heavy duty (more than usual) mount shasta snow storm, the county raised the snow load specifications here from 40#/sq ft to 60#/sq ft... which made all existing roofs substandard, so while they are grandfathered in, adding 2 to 3 #/sq ft for solar

[RE-wrenches] SB2500 Refurbish program gone

2013-02-19 Thread William Miller
Friends: SMA is no longer offering refurbished SB2500 inverters. If you find a dead one, the only option is to acquire a refurbished SB5000US for $700.00. This is touted as an upgrade but I don't see it that way. Rarely will you want to add more solar. Usually the system was originally

[RE-wrenches] Water tank for dump load

2013-02-19 Thread Nathan Stumpff
Wrenches, I am designing a system with a sizable diversion load and am looking for the smallest water tank I can get with four ports for elements. I will be supplying my own elements and need four 1 bungs. I am definitely trying to avoid a large, expensive solar thermal tank, but that is all

[RE-wrenches] Lorentz Pumps

2013-02-19 Thread Tom DeBates
Hello Wrenches,    Has anyone had recent experience with the Lorentz PS (PV) line of pumps, both centrifugal and helical? I searched the archives and there was some feedback on Lorentz pumps two years ago. Just wondering if anyone had anything more recent. Thanks, Tom Tom DeBates Habi-Tek

Re: [RE-wrenches] Water tank for dump load

2013-02-19 Thread James Jarvis
Hi Nathan, Greer Tank in Fairbanks could weld in additional bungs into whatever tank you want. They have certified pressure vessel welders. You are hardly in prime tank season, so I would imagine this would be relatively cheap. Or you could look at McMaster-Carr's tanks on page 956. Go to

Re: [RE-wrenches] Lorentz Pumps

2013-02-19 Thread Allan Sindelar
Tom, Rant: ON I would caution you to be very careful working with Lorentz pumps. About 16 months ago we got a service request from a longtime customer for whom we had installed an ETA (Lorentz) PV-direct submersible in late 2005. The pump had worked well

Re: [RE-wrenches] Lorentz Pumps

2013-02-19 Thread Dana
Ditto on my experience with Lorentz. I have pulled more than I can count and recycled. I have had a great experience with BISON SOLAR helical pumps we have several in and no issues. Typ designed for stock tanks they can be field configured for domestic pumping AC DC. Huge range of options