Apollo 80 Comments [RE-wrenches]

[Matt Tritt]

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Hope I'm not letting the cat out of the bag, but OutBack is currently 
whipping up even greater expectations with their up-coming "Flex-80"; 
looks like an MX, but has an added doohickey on top with fins on it. The 
choices are growing.

Matt T

Daryl DeJoy wrote:

>   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....
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>Daryl DeJoy
>Penobscot Solar Design
>NABCEP Certified PV installer
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>>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.
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>>Matt T
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>>Ezra Auerbach, DragonSun Consulting wrote:
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>>>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.
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>>>Ezra
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>>>On 8-Nov-07, at 7:02 AM, Travis Creswell wrote:
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>>>>Esteemed Colleagues,
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>>>>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.
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>>>>Any comments are greatly appreciated!
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>>>>Thanks in advnce,
>>>>Travis Creswell
>>>>Ozark Energy Services
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