Outback PS2 Enclosure Confusion [RE-wrenches]

Dan Rice danrice at scinternet.net
Tue Nov 7 22:26:36 PST 2006


Chris,

Kudos to you and Outback for the new Flexware. Not wishing to complain too
loudly, I would like to comment that dropping the fan option in the PS2AC
and Flexware 500 enclosures seems like a shame. Single inverter systems are
likely to use a balancing (step down) transformer for 240 vac generator
input balancing, and given the pass-through capacity of the FX inverter, it
seems somewhat clunky to have to integrate a PSX-240 to allow 6 kVA of pass
through. The X-240 inside the PS2 (or Flexware 500) enclosure (WITH fan) is
(was) an elegant solution that also readily accomodates an upgrade to a two
inverter Outback stacked system. Adding the PSX-240 externally is cumbersome
in comparison, IMHO. I'm hoping you'll reconsider the decision to include
the fan option in the Flexware 500 enclosure as you move forward on product
development.

That said, thank you for the great products!

Dan Rice
Abundant Sun, LLC.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Christopher Freitas --- OutBack Power" <cfreitas at outbackpower.com>
To: <RE-wrenches at topica.com>
Sent: Tuesday, November 07, 2006 12:16 PM
Subject: RE: Outback PS2 Enclosure Confusion [RE-wrenches]


|
| John -
|
| Yes - we did have a new version of the PS2 enclosure which started to
| ship around May of 2006.  There was some changes required by ETL
| regarding the internal fan mounting location and we had to move the
| production of it to a different metal fab vendor due to capacity issues
| with them - our original metalfab was not keeping up with our growth.
|
| Well - in this move and slight "redesign" there were some problems which
| resulted in a few of the previous provision being eliminated. This was
| not realized until after the enclosures were shipped to the distributors
| unfortunately.
|
| The primary changes to the PS2 were the elimination of the mounting for
| the MATE on the right side of the PSDC enclosure above the MX60 and the
| entire elimination of the fan option - testing with the enclosure fully
| loaded with a x-240 transformer and breakers showed that it was not
| required and we now also offer a separately enclosed version of the
| x-240 with a thermally controlled fan mounted into it if you need 6kW of
| step-up or step-down.
|
| We appologize for the screw-up and wish that there was enough time to
| correct these issues - but we choose to put all of our resources into
| getting the new FLEXware System enclosures into production instead as
| they are far superior to the original PS2 enclosures.
|
| The holes required to mount the MATE on the side can be easily drilled
| if required - personally I do not like to use it as it only works with
| the oval MATE and I prefer to put it somewhere where the customer is
| more often looking.  We also will be coming out with a new version of
| the MATE which will have different mounting...
|
| Christopher
|
| Christopher Freitas
| OutBack Power Systems, Inc.
| cfreitas @ outbackpower.com
| www.outbackpower.com
| Arlington WA USA
| Tel 360 435 6030


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