Outboard equipment for PV5 [RE-wrenches]

Solar Technologies rdenault at solartechnologies.com
Wed Jun 13 23:44:55 PDT 2001


I wonder if the same philosophy will hold true for the high voltage Sunny
Boys?

Roger

----- Original Message -----
From: Bill Brooks <billbrooks7 at earthlink.net>
To: <RE-wrenches at topica.com>
Sent: Wednesday, June 13, 2001 10:01 AM
Subject: RE: Outboard equipment for PV5 [RE-wrenches]


> William,
>
> Most of the them are buying dozens or hundreds of units and Trace is able
to
> justify support to those customers. They (we) figured out a lot of the
> issues and problems the hard way--trial and error. It is much more
difficult
> to support the small 5,10,15kW units to single-sale customers. Xantrex is
> working on how to deal with this issue. One potential way of dealing with
> these units is to sell only through master dealers who provide the support
> to the final installers.
>
> As I have said before, without an engineered system and direct training on
> how to put it together and the hazards involved, you are embarking on a
very
> risky business. As I have seen in the field, one mis-polarized 600V array
> connection can cause most combiners to catch on fire. There is enough
> different about high-voltage systems that attempting them without a fair
> amount of design and installation experience is not wise.
>
> Bill.
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: William Miller [mailto:wrmiller at slonet.org]
> > Sent: Tuesday, June 12, 2001 11:42 AM
> > To: RE-wrenches at topica.com
> > Subject: RE: Outboard equipment for PV5 [RE-wrenches]
> >
> >
> > At 09:38 PM 6/11/01 -0700, you wrote:
> > >William,
> > >
> > >Trace Tech normally sells their equipment to companies that do their
own
> > >design engineering or hire engineers to design their systems for
> > them. Now
> > >that they offer smaller inverters, it may seem like they should
> > provide more
> > >design input, but they are not currently setup to do this. Remember,
they
> > >service a major part of the variable speed wind turbine industry with
> > >inverters--huge inverters.
> > >
> >
> > Bill:
> >
> > Thanks very much for the advice.  I wonder: how do the companies that
> > design their own systems learn the details about the Trace Tech
equipment?
> > I perused the Trace Tech web site and found little or no information
about
> > the PV5 (aka 5208, I believe) or the outboard equipment.  Is
> > there a source
> > I don't know about so I can limit the questions I need to ask of their
> > personnel?
> >
> > Thanks again,
> >
> > William Miller
> >
> >
> >
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