Apollo 80 Comments [RE-wrenches]

[Daryl DeJoy]

   We have installed five since late 2006. Three of them were installed in
Maine, two in the Caribbean. The first one installed smoked within five
days. Apollo was very supportive and immendiately replaced it with no
problem. It has since been working well. The other two in Maine seem to
be working very well.
   One is my own, working aside my MX-60. They seem to perform equally.
   The two in the Caribbean are performing very well. Apollo advertises
that the T-80 performs well at high temps and this claim seems to be
substantiated by these two controllers. We have had no problems at all
since they were installed six months ago.
   We will continue to use them. I might add that they can be a pain to
retrofit into an existing system. The additional temp sensor wires,
powered smart shunt, etc. are the reasons. In new systems they are no
problem to install.
   Apollo seems to be committed to good customer service so far.
   Just my two sense....

Daryl DeJoy
Penobscot Solar Design
NABCEP Certified PV installer






>
> I sold a pair to one of our customers early this year, one of which
> failed immediately. The other worked fine, even when working with too
> high an input.
>
> Matt T
>
> Ezra Auerbach, DragonSun Consulting wrote:
>
>>
>> I installed one in my system the summer of '06 and it has been
>> working fine since. I don't work the controller hard, it has about 1
>> kW connected to it.I did have a few smoke earlier but they were pre-
>> production models. I pretty carefully compared the T80 output with
>> other MPPT controllers and found that it kept up well. I have
>> recommended them because they are quieter (less fan, perhaps better
>> thermal design?) have a simple user interface, and offer on-board
>> data logging.
>>
>> Ezra
>>
>> On 8-Nov-07, at 7:02 AM, Travis Creswell wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> Esteemed Colleagues,
>>>
>>> Has the Apollo 80 been a reliable product for those of you that  have
>>> used
>>> it?  We are thinking about using on an off-grid rehab project we  are
>>> doing.
>>>
>>> Any comments are greatly appreciated!
>>>
>>> Thanks in advnce,
>>> Travis Creswell
>>> Ozark Energy Services
>>>
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