Can an inverter catch fire? [RE-wrenches]

[hugh piggott]

<x-flowed>At 9:32 am -0800 10/2/01, Chuck Heath, SunPower wrote:
>The entire system is backwired on a custom powerboard of kitchen-counter
>material, so there is not a conduit or wire to be seen (except the
>battery cables).

Nice system.  It makes me think about a problem I sometimes have 
though.  Mounting inverters on wooden surfaces. ( I assume the 
counter is inflammable?)

Although I have on occasion fitted inverters to wooden panel 
surfaces, I am not comfortable with this practice, and I wonder how 
you others feel. Where possible I prefer to put fireproof material 
behind the inverter (ideally, concrete blockwork wall, with the 
battery on the other side).

comments?
-- 
Hugh

Scoraig, Scotland
http://www.scoraigwind.co.uk

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