ABC News / AP story on Solar Electric Systems [RE-wrenches]

William Korthof wkorthof at earthlink.net
Mon Jun 7 21:56:18 PDT 2004


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20 years operation is a noteworthy achievement for the
inverters, and it at least warrants mention for the PV.

Anyone know what semiconductor they were using
(I presume mosfet). What was the array voltage?


/wk



At 08:34 PM 6/7/2004, you wrote:
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>Graham,
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>I read between the lines and see this a huge success. The fact that any of
>those APCC inverters are still operating 20 years later is amazing. The
>moron who wrote this story missed the big news. Those units remain the best
>engineered inverters on the planet with all do respect to our current
>equipment. Today's inverters have an enormous reliability hurdle to overcome
>if they want to be in the same ballpark as the APCC units. They weren't
>perfect, but they were about 20 years ahead of their time. It would be nice
>to see them back in PV some day. Too bad they are making too much money
>making PC UPSs (American Power Conversion).
>
>Bill.
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: Graham Owen [mailto:graham at solarexpert.com]
>Sent: Monday, June 07, 2004 3:41 PM
>To: RE-wrenches at topica.com; RE-wrenches at topica.com
>Subject: RE: ABC News / AP story on Solar Electric Systems [RE-wrenches]
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>This page shows a picture of the inverter installed in 1985:
>http://msnbc.msn.com/id/5119553/
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>I don't know why, but it seems like negative solar stories are broadcast
>far and wide while most of the positive solar press releases are not
>distributed by mainstream media?
>
>Graham
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