Installation details [RE-wrenches]

[Bill Brooks]

Jeff and Joel,

The program with the best performing residential grid-connected PV systems
in the nation is LADWP. Why? Because they inspect every single installation
and check to make sure it is working properly, is not excessively shaded,
and is installed properly. It requires someone who is sharp and well-trained
to provide that type of review--is that so hard?

The LADWP experience is that the first few systems are often quite rough
from a new installer. Once the installer has to go back and redo their first
few systems, they learn in a hurry how to do them right. The difference
between doing a system right and wrong is not a lot of hours. It's knowledge
they need. Every installer must take at least a one-day installation class
and must have their systems reviewed and fix any problems before being paid.
Simple, but effective.

Is it cheap--no. Is it worth it--absolutely!

Bill.

-----Original Message-----
From: Joel Davidson [mailto:joeldavidson at earthlink.net]
Sent: Monday, November 25, 2002 8:23 PM
To: RE-wrenches at topica.com
Subject: Re: Installation details [RE-wrenches]


Dear Jeff and everyone,
Band of PV vigilantes? Now that's an image even more ludicrous than a bunch
of
PV stakeholders and bureaucrats cobbling together a PV rebate program (just
kidding). I think we have a functional rebate program that should not be
changed
until new goals are clearly defined and agreed upon. Please stop the
finger-pointing and tone down the rhetoric and focus on continued education.
Before going off half-cocked, let's get the details about this Long Beach
system
and suggest to the homeowner how his system can be improved.
Best regards,
Joel Davidson
"Let he who is without screw-up cast the first screwdriver." - from The Code

"Jeffery Wolfe, Global Resource Options" wrote:

> Bill,
>
> So let's empower some bureaucrats to do it better? I know that some folks
in
> the CA programs really know their stuff, but would the folks they hire to
go
> out and review/approve installs be that good?
>
> Bureaucracy is sometimes the solution, but not always. I think some active
> "self-policing", without becoming a band of vigilantes, might be a better
> solution. It should at least be tried.
>
> I'm with Joel on this one.
>
> Jeff
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bill Brooks [mailto:billb at endecon.com]
> Sent: Monday, November 25, 2002 7:13 PM
> To: RE-wrenches at topica.com
> Cc: Jeff Newmiller; Chuck Whitaker
> Subject: RE: Installation details [RE-wrenches]
>
> Okay Joel,
>
> How many conversations are you willing to make to fix the crap that is
going
> on now throughout the state? The point is that it has gotten out of hand
and
> the current hands-off approach just ain't workin'. This is simply a case
in
> point that is repeated all too often by well-meaning, incompetent people.
>
> Bill.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Joel Davidson [mailto:joeldavidson at earthlink.net]
> Sent: Monday, November 25, 2002 3:55 PM
> To: RE-wrenches at topica.com
> Subject: Re: Installation details [RE-wrenches]
>
> I think it is a good idea for you or Graham or anyone else who is
concerned
> about this installation at the corner of E. Deborah Street and Los Coyotes
> Diagonal in the City of Long Beach (Los Angeles Thomas Map Book page
796-C2)
> in
> LADWP territory (not CEC) talk to the homeowner and LADWP solar program
> personnel before making more CEC restrictions.
>
> Bill Brooks wrote:
>
> > Graham,
> >
> > That is lovely!!! I bet this is on a SunnyBoy inverter as well.
Actually,
> if
> > they laid the panels flat on the roof and got rid of a couple of the
extra
> > panels, this system might actually work.
> >
> > So Joel, do you still hold to your opinion that everything is okay with
> the
> > level of restrictions in the CEC program?
> >
> > Bill.
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Graham Owen [mailto:graham at solarexpert.com]
> > Sent: Monday, November 25, 2002 11:05 AM
> > To: RE-wrenches at topica.com
> > Subject: RE: Installation details [RE-wrenches]
> >
> > Here is a picture of what I would consider a bad example installation.
> > I also had absolutely nothing to do with this job.
> >
> > http://www.solarexpert.com/images12/competition.html
> >
> > By the way, I think a good piece of advice for solar thermal turned PV
> > installer is to not use plumbing tube cutters for cutting EMT.
> >
> > Graham
> >
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