ETO Inspection WAS: PV Powered Inverter Efficiency [RE-wrenches]

[Bob-O Schultze, Electron Connection]

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Bill,
Bad choice of words on my part. Bill B. has is correctly as 
irradiance. By insolation, I meant that the ETO inspector checks to 
see that your sun chart and shading measurements are correct.
It's a good program, all considered. I suspect that if CA would adopt 
a similar one, it would weed out the flakes PDQ. A good thing of all 
of us real Wrenches.
bob-O

>Bob,
>
>What is involved with an irradiation check?
>
>Thanks, Bill Loesch, Solar 1 - Saint Louis Solar, tel/fax 314 631 1094
>
>Message text written by bob-O, INTERNET:RE-wrenches at topica.com
>>
>Hiya Mo,
>The Energy Trust of Oregon (ETO) distributes the public benefits
>funds. They have a number of inspectors across the state who are
>experienced and trained in PV. In addition to rechecking the Code
>aspects of the installation (and catching stuff that the county
>inspector misses), they do insolation, irradiation, temperature,
>voltage and current output checks. Taking all that into
>consideration, the array has to be putting out reasonable wattage
>before they sign off on it. They also check to see that the home or
>business owner has received all the manuals, sun chart, schematic,
>and other ETO required documentation from the contractor.
>As a contractor, it's a lot of extra work and a big pain in the ass.
>However, when I put my consumer protection advocate hat on, it's a
>very good thing. The ETO inspection also helps to make sure that the
>public is getting a good bang for it's buck. A damn rare thing these
>days.
>Best, bob-O

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