Solectria Experience Anyone? [RE-wrenches]

[Jeff Clearwater, Village Power Design]

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Hi Doug,

We've have one Solectria 75 KW  and 4  Solectria 13 KW in the field 
since August of '05 with good results.  They also make a 90 KW now 
and the 13 KW now has a 15 KW big brother.  One of the 13 KWs had a 
problem early on but that was fixed promptly - no problems since then.

The core inverter is the result of james Warden's many years 
developing 3 phase wild AC electric vehicle inverters for trucks and 
busses.  A much more demanding environment than PV.  They took that 
core and developed a solid MPPT control section.  The price is right 
too.  They are a relatively small company but their support has been 
good and they are great folks to deal with.

I still like SMA combos for anything up to 56 KWs - especially more 
so now with the SB 7000 and the Tower.

Multiple 13 KW  & 15 KW units price out pretty well, but you really 
can't beat the Solectria 75 KW & 90 KW for price per watt.

Hope that helps!

Jeff Clearwater
Village Power Design



>Gents,
>
>Xantrex finally dropped their ancient PV series of larger inverters, SatCon
>hit us with a huge price increase, there's suddenly a scarcity of inverter
>choices between 20 & 100kW. (Other than SMA combos, which are good, but only
>go so far.)
>
>Anybody have experience, good or bad, with Solectria? They're attractive
>price-wise and seem to have all the construction and communication bits of a
>modern design, but I'd love to hear some hands-on experience before we dive
>in.
>
>Cheers,
>Doug Pratt
>DC Power Systems
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