Sanyo panel short MC wires [RE-wrenches]

[Sky Sims]

William,

This is a 2.5 acre site, the panels are on my shop roof in the back so
the mail man ups etc. don't go back there unless supervised. With
perimeter barrier almost 100 yards from the panel location. Unless the
panels sprout wings they aren't making it off the property. No children
are onsite except when supervised, all visitors are aware of the arrays
(I'm always bragging about them). If we have a category 4 storm I'm more
worried about falling trees, flying cars, rocks and collapsing buildings
than I am about a roof full of solar panels flying around. My testing is
done mainly to prove how over board we as an industry have gone. I'm all
for designing things to withstand the 100 year storm and Armageddon. But
not when it means that we have to continue using nuclear and coal. Tens
of thousands die every year because we haven't switched to clean energy
yet. Raise the bar to high and you'll kill hundreds of times more than
you save. Don't believe me? Check out the statistics on Chernobyl.
Hundreds of thousands dead and dieing and it Bankrupted an entire
country. Living within a hundred miles of the oldest nuclear plant in
the entire world makes me nervous. Especially when a malfunction occurs
and the temperature of the entire bay its sitting in rises so fast in 10
minutes that it kills all the fish in the entire bay. Happened about a
year ago.  

Is there danger in this industry? Certainly, but we can't protect
against stupid. And even the worst solar accident will not kill an
entire region of the country.

Hope I answered your question,
Sky Sims
Ecological Systems
www.ecologicalsystems.biz
220 County Road 522
Manalapan, NJ 07726
732-462-3858   fax)732-462-3962


-----Original Message-----
From: William Miller [mailto:wrmiller at charter.net] 
Sent: Monday, February 04, 2008 12:16 PM
To: RE-wrenches at topica.com
Subject: RE: Sanyo panel short MC wires [RE-wrenches]


Sky:

What methods are you using at your "test facility" to make sure the mail

man, UPS delivery, children or other humans are kept away from the drop
zone?

Thanks in advance for the reply on your safety procedures.


William Miller

At 07:44 AM 2/4/2008, you wrote:


>Have a system on my roof that I let the wires hang so I can see if they

>ever rub bare. Been up about 10 years now and I don't see any
indications 
>of wear other than perhaps the color is a bit faded.
>These panels are also not secured by anything other than their own
weight. 
>They are at a 10 degree tilt on a nearly flat roof and haven't budged
yet. 
>They've seen gusts up to 80mph.
>May be someday the wind will throw them off the roof but my math says
no. 
>Total system weight 4.5 pounds per square foot.
>
>I like to test all kinds of scenarios at my place,
>Sky Sims
>Ecological Systems
>http://www.ecologicalsystems.biz <http://www.ecologicalsystems.biz/>
>220 County Road 522
>Manalapan, NJ 07726
>732-462-3858  fax)732-462-3962  cell)732-618-7140


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