Hypalon Cable [RE-wrenches]

[Dana Orzel]

Right On Bill!

"Responsible Technologies For Responsible People."
Dana Orzel  -   slrwrk at ocinet.net
Great Solar Works, Inc.    -   Ridgway, CO
970.626.5253    -    solarwork.com


----- Original Message -----
From: "Bill Brooks" <billb at endecon.com>
To: <RE-wrenches at topica.com>
Sent: Tuesday, July 23, 2002 4:29 PM
Subject: RE: Hypalon Cable [RE-wrenches]


> Allan,
>
> I understand and respect your struggle and frustration. However, these
> offgrid folks in the U.S. are so far from developing country status that I
> don't even want to go there--for the most part they want to live the way
> they live and want to be left alone--no problem from me. However, when I
am
> designing a system to use in a real developing country, I take a very
> serious look at the code and equipment that has the technology to last for
> the long haul. When you stick something on the other side of the planet,
it
> better be able to last 25 years. So much of the crap that our industry has
> installed and produced won't last a week in many of those locations.
>
> The fact that folks in their broken down trailers will use barb wire as PV
> output conductors is of no interest or consequence in my book. There will
> always be folks that think they can cut corners and save money--usually at
> the expense of safety. If people want to put their own lives in danger,
that
> is their problem. The code is to keep people and property safe from
> electrical hazards. As I tell people in my classes, it is very difficult
to
> kill yourself or burn down your house with 12 Volts (unless you try), and
if
> people want to pretend they live in the 3rd world or live like a bum, this
> is a free country and have on at it. That will NEVER fly in the real
world.
>
> I have no interest or need to help hermits in the back country live
whatever
> way they want to live--they will do that with or without my help. I want
to
> help the person in suburbia that wants access to this amazing technology
and
> needs and wants to do things by the book. I understand that is not the
main
> clientel of many wrenches and that's fine. It is the largest segment of
the
> expanding market for PV however. There is no option--it has to be done
right
> and according to traceable codes and standards--that is the real world. It
> is simply a different market and wrenches have to decide for themselves
> whether they want to play in that market or stay with their existing
market
> that has been their bread and butter for 25 years. I can understand and
> support those folks that don't want to play in this new market--it has a
lot
> of downsides. On the other hand it is very hard to resist because, in
> certain pockets, their are enormous amounts of money at stake as some
> wrenches in California have learned.

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