panel poaching [RE-wrenches]

[Tom Simko]

 We had a few remote sites ripped off, 2 ranch water pumping arrays and one
yurt power system, tamper proof hardware and pouring the schedule 40 pipe
solid internally with concrete mix and with rebar inside has worked so far.
At least it has in theory, there have been no theft attempts on the new
arrays so far. At least it'll take a bit more work....

Tom Simko
Skyline Solar

on 10/19/03 11:05 PM, Bruce Geddes at b.geddes at clear.net.nz wrote:

> Here in NZ there was a spate of Telco PV thefts a few years ago in my area.
> The company replaced one remote repeater array using tamperproofs but the
> site still went down.  Investigation showed that the array atop a 15m pole
> had been hacksawed off the pole!  You can only go so far.  Telecom did not
> bother to record serial no's so not much the industry could do to track down
> the panels.
> 
> Bruce Geddes
> PowerOn
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Nicholas Ponzio, VSE" <nik at vtsolar.com>
> To: <RE-wrenches at topica.com>
> Sent: Monday, October 20, 2003 2:57 PM
> Subject: RE: panel poaching [RE-wrenches]
> 
> 
>> 
>> Is anybody using tamper-proof hardware for these situations? Maybe some
> rack
>> fabs are offering this as an option? If not they should. When you're
> putting
>> up thousands of dollars worth of equipment out in insecure locations
> (remote
>> camps, state police barracks...) it just makes sense to take some extra
>> precautions.
> 
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