[RE-wrenches] IMO's Fire Raptor

2021-08-29 Thread Nick A Lucchese
Have many of you had success with the Fire Raptor products approved for Outback? MLSD is a hassle for sure and I’m no fonder of it than the rest of you but meanwhile a few of my near term off grid installations will be needing a solution. I’ve been dragging my feet submitting a permit package fo

Re: [RE-wrenches] IMO's Fire Raptor

2021-08-29 Thread Sky Sims
We’ve put in a few hundred fire raptors so far and have no failures on any of their units yet. But we’ve only been using them for a year and what compensation do they offer 10years from now if the unit fails and doubles the customers out of pocket on the system installation? Sky Sims Ecologica

Re: [RE-wrenches] Exploding RSD Unit

2021-08-29 Thread Sky Sims
It’s good to see everyone waking up to the dangers of RSD. This last code cycle has been a complete disaster for solar, between RSD and these obscene set back requirements for solar panels on the roof, it really looks like residential solar is under attack by hostile forces, driving up costs and

[RE-wrenches] Exploding RSD Unit

2021-08-29 Thread jay
There is another agency here that needs to be looked at, and that is UL. UL is probably the agency that has done the testing design etc to make sure that this product won’t do what it just did. Its possible the testing design is quite good and the issue was due to poor manufacturing, or due to

Re: [RE-wrenches] Exploding RSD Unit

2021-08-29 Thread drake . chamberlin
Fronius is also involved in the effort to remove the MLSD requirement. https://solarbuildermag.com/featured/safety-concerns-for-solar-pv-module-level-shutdown-solutions/ In order to remove MLSD, it would require financial backing to get someone on a committee, pay, house and feed them througho

Re: [RE-wrenches] Exploding RSD Unit

2021-08-29 Thread Christopher Warfel
Brian, I think you serve on a CMP.  (if not, anyone with knowledge on the process would be helpful.) What is the process for receiving and acknowledging input from non CMP members?  Every time I submitted comment, I received no response (as far as I can remember). Thank you, Chris On 8/28/2021