Re: [RE-wrenches] Large off-grid inverter/storage

2019-09-06 Thread Lorenzo Ortiz
> > Redway, CA 95560 > > www.greenwired.com > > [image: Description: signature] > > > > > > > > *From:* RE-wrenches [mailto:re-wrenches-boun...@lists.re-wrenches.org > ] *On Behalf Of * > palumbo1...@gmail.com > *Sent:* Thursday, September 05, 2019 7:48 PM > *

Re: [RE-wrenches] Large off-grid inverter/storage

2019-09-06 Thread Ray
Of *palumbo1...@gmail.com *Sent:* Thursday, September 05, 2019 7:48 PM *To:* RE-wrenches *Subject:* Re: [RE-wrenches] Large off-grid inverter/storage Is “25 Kw per hour” a real value? For us old school people there is kW and they is kWh (kilowatt hours). I’m guessing that it is 25 kWh per average

Re: [RE-wrenches] Large off-grid inverter/storage

2019-09-06 Thread Starlight Solar Power Systems
Hi Andrew, Any phrase that includes “per hour” while describing power use, generation or storage in a RE system is probably a misnomer. Think about it: you could just as well say 25kW per second or per month. That’s because kW is a term that describes a rate or power, not a quantity of energy

Re: [RE-wrenches] Large off-grid inverter/storage

2019-09-06 Thread Andrew
-wrenches Subject: Re: [RE-wrenches] Large off-grid inverter/storage Is “25 Kw per hour” a real value? For us old school people there is kW and they is kWh (kilowatt hours). I’m guessing that it is 25 kWh per average day, or, about 750 KWh / month. Dave Palumbo Hyde Park, VT Sent from my iPhone

Re: [RE-wrenches] Large off-grid inverter/storage

2019-09-06 Thread Dave Angelini Offgrid Solar
NT: Thursday, September 05, 2019 3:15 PM TO: RE-wrenches SUBJECT: [RE-wrenches] Large off-grid inverter/storage Hey Everyone, I have been recently been getting more and more inquiries for some quite large off-grid sytems(25kw per hour) and seeing what you guys have for suggestions on bigge

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2019-09-06 Thread Tump
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Re: [RE-wrenches] Large off-grid inverter/storage

2019-09-05 Thread palumbo131m
Is “25 Kw per hour” a real value? For us old school people there is kW and they is kWh (kilowatt hours). I’m guessing that it is 25 kWh per average day, or, about 750 KWh / month. Dave Palumbo Hyde Park, VT Sent from my iPhone > On Sep 5, 2019, at 5:15 PM, Andrew wrote: > > Hey Everyone, >

Re: [RE-wrenches] Large off-grid inverter/storage

2019-09-05 Thread Dave Angelini Offgrid Solar
onsider the environment before printing this email. FROM: RE-wrenches ON BEHALF OF Andrew SENT: Thursday, September 05, 2019 3:15 PM TO: RE-wrenches SUBJECT: [RE-wrenches] Large off-grid inverter/storage Hey Everyone, I have been recently been getting more and more inquiries for some quite la

[RE-wrenches] Large off-grid inverter/storage

2019-09-05 Thread Dana
esponsible Technologies for Responsible People since 1988" P Please consider the environment before printing this email. From: RE-wrenches On Behalf Of Andrew Sent: Thursday, September 05, 2019 3:15 PM To: RE-wrenches Subject: [RE-wrenches] Large off-grid inverter/storage Hey Every

[RE-wrenches] Large off-grid inverter/storage

2019-09-05 Thread Andrew
Hey Everyone, I have been recently been getting more and more inquiries for some quite large off-grid sytems(25kw per hour) and seeing what you guys have for suggestions on bigger inverters and storage systems? I could do 2 triple stack Schneider's and a bunch of HUPS industrial

Re: [RE-wrenches] Large Off-Grid Residential System and ciculating currents

2019-07-25 Thread Jason Szumlanski
ogy, but I instinctively avoid parallel battery strings. >> >> >> >> William Miller >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> Miller Solar >> >> 17395 Oak Road, Atascadero, CA 93422 >> >> 805-438-5600 >> >>

Re: [RE-wrenches] Large Off-Grid Residential System and ciculating currents

2019-07-24 Thread Dave Angelini Offgrid Solar
nergy consuming devices." W. Miller FROM: RE-wrenches [mailto:re-wrenches-boun...@lists.re-wrenches.org [6]] ON BEHALF OF Lou Russo SENT: Saturday, July 20, 2019 1:50 PM TO: RE-wrenches SUBJECT: Re: [RE-wrenches] Large Off-Grid Residential System Blue Ion 2.0 with Outback or SMA. Works

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2019-07-24 Thread Will White
omers are asking for >> new technology, but I instinctively avoid parallel battery strings. >> >> >> >> William Miller >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> Miller Solar >> >> 17395 Oak Road, Atascadero, CA 93422 >> >>

Re: [RE-wrenches] Large Off-Grid Residential System and ciculating currents

2019-07-24 Thread August Goers
t; > > William Miller > > > > > > > > Miller Solar > > 17395 Oak Road, Atascadero, CA 93422 > > 805-438-5600 > > www.millersolar.com > > CA Lic. 773985 > > > > Quote of the month: “As they age, batteries transition from energy >

Re: [RE-wrenches] Large Off-Grid Residential System and ciculating currents

2019-07-23 Thread Jerry Shafer
www.millersolar.com > > CA Lic. 773985 > > > > Quote of the month: “As they age, batteries transition from energy > > storage devices to energy consuming devices.“ W. Miller > > > > *From:* RE-wrenches [mailto:re-wrenches-boun...@lists.re-wrenches.org] *On >

Re: [RE-wrenches] Large Off-Grid Residential System and ciculating currents

2019-07-23 Thread William Miller
s-boun...@lists.re-wrenches.org] *On Behalf Of *Lou Russo *Sent:* Saturday, July 20, 2019 1:50 PM *To:* RE-wrenches *Subject:* Re: [RE-wrenches] Large Off-Grid Residential System Blue Ion 2.0 with Outback or SMA. Works every time. Blue Planet's tech support is great, the warranty is even better.

Re: [RE-wrenches] Large Off-Grid Residential System

2019-07-21 Thread Jay
I was just reminded that exeltech can do up to 125kw. Jay > On Jul 21, 2019, at 3:05 AM, Tump wrote: > > Victron has the Quattro 10kW inverters w/ 100A pass thru and they have a good > battery management for their Li battery line. They have also started to have > their products UL

Re: [RE-wrenches] Large Off-Grid Residential System

2019-07-21 Thread Tump
Victron has the Quattro 10kW inverters w/ 100A pass thru and they have a good battery management for their Li battery line. They have also started to have their products UL listed. GOOD robust product and good support. Allen formerly of Magnum is cc ed here. Up to 6 Quattro units can operate in

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2019-07-20 Thread Jay
The other 2 that I can think of are Pika (not sure they can parallel stack) and Princeton energy for an all in one unit. Yea so far Schneider can only do 4 x 6800w single phase. Jay > On Jul 20, 2019, at 2:13 PM, Mac Lewis wrote: > > I think Outback is the only major inverter manufacturer

Re: [RE-wrenches] Large Off-Grid Residential System

2019-07-20 Thread Marco Mangelsdorf
Si senor. 7 kW surge. On Saturday, July 20, 2019, Jay wrote: > Hi Marco, > > Is the max surge 7kw, which is what is listed on line? > > Jay > Peltz Power > > On Jul 19, 2019, at 3:10 PM, Marco Mangelsdorf > wrote: > > Seven to eight Tesla Powerwalls will get you that assuming that the >

Re: [RE-wrenches] Large Off-Grid Residential System

2019-07-20 Thread Mac Lewis
I think Outback is the only major inverter manufacturer that can do split phase 120/240 to that size. You have to go 3 phase for 36 kW continuous capacity with either Schneider or SMA. Good luck, sounds like a fun system to design. On Sat, Jul 20, 2019 at 2:50 PM Lou Russo wrote: > Blue Ion

Re: [RE-wrenches] Large Off-Grid Residential System

2019-07-20 Thread Lou Russo
Blue Ion 2.0 with Outback or SMA. Works every time. Blue Planet's tech support is great, the warranty is even better. Aloha, Lou Russo l...@spreesolarsystems.com 808 345 6762 Spree Solar Systems LLC CT-34322 On Sat, Jul 20, 2019 at 10:36 AM Jay wrote: > Hi Marco, > > Is the max surge 7kw,

Re: [RE-wrenches] Large Off-Grid Residential System

2019-07-20 Thread Darryl Thayer
I would look to Iron-Edison as they build systems up to this size using LiFe PO On Fri, Jul 19, 2019, 4:24 PM Jason Szumlanski < ja...@floridasolardesigngroup.com> wrote: > What are current popular options for battery based systems in the 100kWh > range? Preferably Lithium. > > Also, what

Re: [RE-wrenches] Large Off-Grid Residential System

2019-07-20 Thread Jay
Hi Marco, Is the max surge 7kw, which is what is listed on line? Jay Peltz Power > On Jul 19, 2019, at 3:10 PM, Marco Mangelsdorf wrote: > > Seven to eight Tesla Powerwalls will get you that assuming that the service > entrance is no bigger than 200A. > > marco > >> On Friday, July 19,

Re: [RE-wrenches] Large Off-Grid Residential System

2019-07-20 Thread Dave Angelini Offgrid Solar
elsdorf SENT: Friday, July 19, 2019 6:10 PM TO: RE-wrenches SUBJECT: [RE-wrenches] Large Off-Grid Residential System Seven to eight Tesla Powerwalls will get you that assuming that the service entrance is no bigger than 200A. marco On Friday, July 19, 2019, Jason Szumlanski wrote: What

Re: [RE-wrenches] Large Off-Grid Residential System

2019-07-20 Thread Glenn Burt
However they are not useable for off-grid, only grid tied, as I understand it. Glenn From: RE-wrenches On Behalf Of Marco Mangelsdorf Sent: Friday, July 19, 2019 6:10 PM To: RE-wrenches Subject: [RE-wrenches] Large Off-Grid Residential System Seven to eight Tesla Powerwalls will get

[RE-wrenches] Large Off-Grid Residential System

2019-07-19 Thread Marco Mangelsdorf
Seven to eight Tesla Powerwalls will get you that assuming that the service entrance is no bigger than 200A. marco On Friday, July 19, 2019, Jason Szumlanski < ja...@floridasolardesigngroup.com> wrote: > What are current popular options for battery based systems in the 100kWh > range?

Re: [RE-wrenches] Large Off-Grid Residential System

2019-07-19 Thread Jerry Shafer
Jason I have seen Outback/Blue ion systems well into this size, personally l have systems with well into this range, l am to understand that PR has been going with the Blue Planet Energy Blue Ion with great sucess all over the size scale. Jerry On Fri, Jul 19, 2019, 2:24 PM Jason Szumlanski <

[RE-wrenches] Large Off-Grid Residential System

2019-07-19 Thread Jason Szumlanski
What are current popular options for battery based systems in the 100kWh range? Preferably Lithium. Also, what inverter pairing is suggested with total stacked capacity of 36kW, 120/240V? This is slightly larger than some of the systems I have worked with recently. I'm a bit out of the loop,

Re: [RE-wrenches] Large off grid

2018-07-23 Thread frenergy
Do they know what they are asking for?  I'm/sure/ they have filled out a load sheet?  Don't waste your time until they have carefully and thoughtfully listed ALL their loads.  I had someone sure they were going to be off-grid, had an ENORMOUS list of loads including charging 2 Teslas. 

Re: [RE-wrenches] Large off grid

2018-07-23 Thread Kevin Pegg
:29 PM To: RE-wrenches Subject: [RE-wrenches] Large off grid What do you say to the person who wants "200 amp" electrical service from their off grid system. I generally use Schneider xw+ inverters. Is it even possible to put 4 or 6 of them together? How many radians can be put tog

Re: [RE-wrenches] Large off grid

2018-07-23 Thread Ray
PM *Subject:* [RE-wrenches] Large off grid What do you say to the person who wants "200 amp" electrical service from their off grid system.  I generally use Schneider xw+ inverters.  Is it even possible to put 4 or 6 of them together? How many radians can be put together?

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2018-07-23 Thread Howard Arey
enches] Large off grid What do you say to the person who wants "200 amp" electrical service from their off grid system. I generally use Schneider xw+ inverters. Is it even possible to put 4 or 6 of them together? How many radians can be put together? I'm curious to know how othe

Re: [RE-wrenches] Large off grid

2018-07-23 Thread offgridsolar
Definitely can stack 6 XW+ 6848's. Plenty of info on the Schneider site. You can PM me for info on this. --Dave On Mon, 23 Jul 2018 17:28:46 -0600, Aaron Mandelkorn wrote: What do you say to the person who wants "200 amp" electrical service from their off grid system. I generally use

Re: [RE-wrenches] Large off grid

2018-07-23 Thread Allan Sindelar
Mandelkorn > To: RE-wrenches > Sent: Monday, July 23, 2018 7:28 PM > Subject: [RE-wrenches] Large off grid > > What do you say to the person who wants "200 amp" electrical service from > their off grid system. I generally use Schneider xw+ inverters. Is it even

Re: [RE-wrenches] Large off grid

2018-07-23 Thread Peter Giroux
bject: [RE-wrenches] Large off grid What do you say to the person who wants "200 amp" electrical service from their off grid system. I generally use Schneider xw+ inverters. Is it even possible to put 4 or 6 of them together? How many radians can be put together? I'm curious to k

[RE-wrenches] Large off grid

2018-07-23 Thread Aaron Mandelkorn
What do you say to the person who wants "200 amp" electrical service from their off grid system. I generally use Schneider xw+ inverters. Is it even possible to put 4 or 6 of them together? How many radians can be put together? I'm curious to know how others would proceed or is this to

Re: [RE-wrenches] Large Off Grid Inverter?

2018-04-26 Thread Dave Angelini Offgrid Solar
nchronized >> generators that can ramp up/down based on demand. Perhaps similar tech >> to what Tesla is doing in Australia. >> >> Kevin >> >> >> -Original Message- >> From: RE-wrenches [mailto:re-wrenches-boun...@lists.re-wrenches.org]

[RE-wrenches] Large Off Grid Inverter?

2018-04-26 Thread jay
There are many large 250kw to multi mw battery based inverters that should cover this project. Most are coming out of china, so I don’t know if UL is something they have. Princeton is one here in the USA, looks like 250kw and 500kwh is their largest on the web site. Sun Grow is one of many

Re: [RE-wrenches] Large Off Grid Inverter?

2018-04-26 Thread Ray
12:37 PM To: RE-wrenches <re-wrenches@lists.re-wrenches.org> Subject: [RE-wrenches] Large Off Grid Inverter? Greetings Fellow Wrenches; We are consulting on a power system for a large off grid facility that is currently operating on a 1500 kW gen set.  The loads are enormous for normal of

Re: [RE-wrenches] Large Off Grid Inverter?

2018-04-26 Thread Dave Angelini Offgrid Solar
nerators that can ramp up/down based on demand. Perhaps similar tech to > what Tesla is doing in Australia. > > Kevin > > > -Original Message- > From: RE-wrenches [mailto:re-wrenches-boun...@lists.re-wrenches.org] On > Behalf Of Ray > Sent: April-25-18 12:37 PM >

Re: [RE-wrenches] Large Off Grid Inverter?

2018-04-26 Thread bzp
Try a three phase soft starter. Programmable start ramp time with relay bypass. Not as expensive as a full blown VFD. Frank BZP. On 4/26/2018 9:17 AM, Dave Angelini Offgrid Solar wrote: Agree with Daryl here at the end. You have to solve the motor surge with variable frequency drive and go

Re: [RE-wrenches] Large Off Grid Inverter?

2018-04-26 Thread Kevin Pegg
: April-25-18 12:37 PM To: RE-wrenches <re-wrenches@lists.re-wrenches.org> Subject: [RE-wrenches] Large Off Grid Inverter? Greetings Fellow Wrenches; We are consulting on a power system for a large off grid facility that is currently operating on a 1500 kW gen set.  The loads are enormous for

[RE-wrenches] Large off grid inverter

2018-04-26 Thread Hilton Dier
A tough assignment, but Daryl has the right idea. A company I used to work for did large off grid systems and would use something they called a rotary capacitor (or something like that). It was a large induction motor paralleled into the grid. It had a DC pony motor and some synchro

Re: [RE-wrenches] Large Off Grid Inverter?

2018-04-26 Thread Ray
We're not too worried about reducing the surge at this point; the existing soft start controller is currently programmed for a fast start, because their electrician was worried about motor damage if the controller was set to limit current.  It is currently surging to 700% of run current, so we

Re: [RE-wrenches] Large Off Grid Inverter?

2018-04-26 Thread Dave Angelini Offgrid Solar
Agree with Daryl here at the end. You have to solve the motor surge with variable frequency drive and go 3 phase. If there is a reasonable cost to use the grid I would not even bother with quoting an off the grid solution. It is what the grid is best at and batteries are the wrong way for this.

Re: [RE-wrenches] Large Off Grid Inverter?

2018-04-25 Thread Darryl Thayer
you have a problem that is much bigger than I work on. But on a large motor heavy starting loads problem, we used an extra capacitor on the DC bus of the frequency drive. the drive on its own greatly reduced the start surge, if the load can be started slowly. If the motor must ramp up quickly

[RE-wrenches] Large Off Grid Inverter?

2018-04-25 Thread Ray
Greetings Fellow Wrenches; We are consulting on a power system for a large off grid facility that is currently operating on a 1500 kW gen set.  The loads are enormous for normal off grid: in the neighborhood of 600 amps continuous at 480 v 3 phase.  Surges are close to 2000 amps, but we are

Re: [RE-wrenches] Large, off grid

2011-08-19 Thread Jeff Oldham
The new Outback Radian GS8048 (aptly nicknamed The Beast) is one extremely impressive inverter! I've been beta testing one on a customer's system for a couple of months and it is a beast alright! However, it will not do 3 phase at this time. It has 2) 4kW 120/240V modules in it, if one fails

Re: [RE-wrenches] Large, off grid

2011-08-19 Thread William Miller
Jeff: Will it do generator support? William Miller At 02:23 PM 8/19/2011, you wrote: The new Outback Radian GS8048 (aptly nicknamed The Beast) is one extremely impressive inverter! I've been beta testing one on a customer's system for a couple of months and it is a beast alright!

Re: [RE-wrenches] Large, off grid

2011-08-19 Thread Jeff Oldham
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Re: [RE-wrenches] Large, off grid

2011-08-19 Thread toddcory
Yes... and we finally get the second AC input we have wanted for so long... the price? $13,000.00... wow Todd On Friday, August 19, 2011 2:35pm, Jeff Oldham starpowe...@juno.com said: Yes it does! From the Solar, Wind and Hydro powered office of Jeff Oldham/Regenerative SOLutions

Re: [RE-wrenches] Large, off grid

2011-08-16 Thread penobscotsolar
Thayer daryl_so...@yahoo.com *To:* RE-wrenches re-wrenches@lists.re-wrenches.org *Cc:* Julie Haugh j...@greenhousepc.com *Sent:* Monday, August 15, 2011 10:43 AM *Subject:* Re: [RE-wrenches] Large, off grid Another method is to use the 120 volt VFX 3648, with one master and 14 slaves. (15 total

Re: [RE-wrenches] Large, off grid

2011-08-15 Thread Darryl Thayer
...@greenhousepc.com Sent: Monday, August 15, 2011 10:43 AM Subject: Re: [RE-wrenches] Large, off grid Another method is to use the 120 volt VFX 3648, with one master and 14 slaves. (15 total, 5 in paralled on each leg)  Check this with Outback as the 3 phase is different now than it was back in 2003.  The three

Re: [RE-wrenches] Large, off grid

2011-08-15 Thread boB Gudgel
daryl_so...@yahoo.com *To:* RE-wrenches re-wrenches@lists.re-wrenches.org *Cc:* Julie Haugh j...@greenhousepc.com *Sent:* Monday, August 15, 2011 10:43 AM *Subject:* Re: [RE-wrenches] Large, off grid Another method is to use the 120 volt VFX 3648, with one master and 14 slaves. (15 total, 5

[RE-wrenches] Large, off grid

2011-08-12 Thread penobscotsolar
Hello wrenches, We have an opportunity to install a very large (60 kw) off grid system in Mexico. It is currently three phase. I do have the option of changing out the air conditioners (36 of them) to 120 single phase, but it is an added layer of complexity/cost that it would be nice to avoid.

Re: [RE-wrenches] Large, off grid

2011-08-12 Thread Exeltech
Darryl, Exeltech makes 60 kW three-phase off-grid inverters. Contact me off-list. Dan Sr. Engineer Exeltech --- On Fri, 8/12/11, penobscotso...@midmaine.com penobscotso...@midmaine.com wrote: From: penobscotso...@midmaine.com penobscotso...@midmaine.com Subject: [RE-wrenches] Large, off

Re: [RE-wrenches] Large, off grid

2011-08-12 Thread Philip Boutelle
SMA Multi-Cluster Box, 3-phase up to 60kW using Sunny Islands http://www.grosolar.com/documents/doc_details/294-smacluster-spec-sheet.html On Fri, Aug 12, 2011 at 8:42 AM, penobscotso...@midmaine.com wrote: Hello wrenches, We have an opportunity to install a very large (60 kw) off grid

Re: [RE-wrenches] Large, off grid

2011-08-12 Thread jay peltz
Hi Daryl, You might look at the new Outback 8kw 120/240v I know that you can connect up to 10 in parallel, i don't know if you can do it 3 phase however. jay peltz power On Aug 12, 2011, at 8:42 AM, penobscotso...@midmaine.com wrote: Hello wrenches, We have an opportunity to