Using a Atksen Gen wizard will allow the installer to have a; start on low
starter battery voltage as well as start on low temp feature. If its a propane
unit I always use the carb heater 1) helps the unit start 20 cycles the unit
more often in the winter due to the load of the carb heater. OR
Bill,
This is the new reality, for better or worse. Most gennies are primarily built
for residential backup and use the grid AC to maintain readiness.
In a new installation, running one more conductor to carry system AC for the
generator, often no larger than 14awg, with the output and signal
(Accidentally hit send before finished)
A few years ago we addressed this on a Kohler 11RES installation. We put a 20w
module and controller on the starting battery for the control load. The other
loads - carb heater and something else I don't recall - ran off the inverter's
AC, but with a
I have recently been in discussion with a company that builds a large number
of medium-sized PV ground mount system (30 kW to over 100 kW). They claim
that they have been seeing something on the order of 0.7% annual degradation
in the output of their systems due to intrinsic degradation in the PV
You know, I think I mis-spoke about not offering design support.
We do offer design support, and it is called the SMA Off-Grid Configurator
(much like the Sunny Design Tool).
There is both a free and a paid version.
Found here:
I just asked the same question to Brad @AEE, they have a set hooked up for test
but test has not started yet. From an environmental point of view they are
safer than anything on the market.
I attempted to contact Aquion, I have emailed called, I left several
messages and never heard back.
Does anyone have any thoughts/experience with the Aquion Energy battery?
Mark Frye
Berkeley Solar Electric Systems
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Hi Mark,
There was some discussion back in November 2014 on this list. They claim 100%
DoD but I can’t see how you can use the full capacity of the battery due to the
broad operating voltage.
Larry Crutcher
Starlight Solar Power Systems
On Jul 16, 2015, at 5:20 AM, Mark Frye
Wrenches,
We recently discussed the significant load the brains of many
gensets requires, especially in off-grid. I have been trying to keep the
start battery and brains of a Kohler 14KW gen charged with a ~40 PV. This
works fine until the winter.
Any issues with keeping
Aloha All,
We have been integrating Aquion Energy batteries into select Off Grid homes
for just over a year now, with great success. The key is designing them for
what they are, and not as if they were a lead acid battery. The biggest
added design criteria is taking into consideration their power
Hi Folks,
My ~7 year old Solmetric 110n is having issues and Im looking for a
substitute. Seeing that Solmetric was bought by another company and the 210
is discontinued, Im hoping to find a similar site evaluation tool that
would be acceptable to incentive programs. I really dont want to go
This is what I did at my house. There's large conductors going to the house
for the generator output and small conductors coming back from the main load
center to power the charger and electronics. I live off the grid and the load
isn't noticeable.
Thanks,
Will
Will White
Director of
Hi:
Having both connected will work the way you want, only if you make sure
the solar charger charging voltage is higher than the Kohler charger
voltage.
When the solar charging source has higher voltage it will trump the lower
Kohler charging voltage an do the charging when the sun is out.
Hi:
There was a lot of talk about on this forum some months ago. Aquion is a
very unique word, so a keyword search should work very well.
Michael, is there a method by which we can do a keyword search of past
posts?
JARMO
HI Peter,
I’ll bite.
From the folks I know who deal with multi mega watt systems, are seeing less
than that level of degradation.
That said, the standard module 25 yr warranty to 80% is just on .7% year if I
have my math correct.
jay
peltz power
On Jul 16, 2015, at 9:08 AM, Peter
It's too bad that when a module goes to a REAL high degradation, like,
100% down to nothing
before that 25 year warranty is up, that it is NOT considered
degradation and is not covered
under warranty.
P.S. This has nothing to do with Trina or any PV company in particular.
boB
On 7/16/2015
Wrenches
We did research on this battery going back close to two years, we found
that there was an unusable part of the battery capacity that was to far out
of range to consider refer to the charts from Aquion, also look at the mass
or space required. I do like the idea but the cupcake holder has
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