Solectria Inverters [RE-wrenches]

[Drake Chamberlin]

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Hello Doug and Sky,

Thanks for the detailed information.  It appears that these inverters 
are winners.

Drake

At 08:01 PM 4/11/2008, you wrote:

>Hi Drake. (full disclosure: I work for DC Power who distributes Solectria
>and other brands of inverters.) That said, I really like Solectria and
>worked to bring them to the west coast. I had some experience with them
>years ago when they were making the absolutely finest 3-phase electric
>vehicle controls and drives. You may have noticed we're not all driving
>electrics (yet), so Solectria turned their expertise to something they could
>sell. From the vehicle biz they learned to make compact, ruggedized, highly
>dependable control packages. Their 60, 82, and 95kW units all use the same
>electronic control cassette that contains all the chips and software. It's
>got 4 bolts and 5 wire connectors to replace it, which can be done in under
>an hour. Nice serviceability! No guessing which board is bad, they just all
>get replaced and the bad chip gets sorted out back at the factory. Up until
>a couple years ago they had lousy CEC efficiency numbers. They've cleaned up
>their software and learned to play the efficiency tests so they're right up
>there in the 95 to 95.5% range. They offer a full range of combiners and
>sub-combiners for ease of installation, and Fat Spaniel components can be
>pre-installed at the factory. We've sold quite a number of them over the
>past couple years. Installation, performance, and satisfaction have been
>good. Delivery time is usually 4-6 weeks, better than the competition
>usually manages. Please note that my comments concern the 13kW and larger
>Solectria inverters. I've no experience with the little 1800 and 2500 watt
>residential units. (Not so good CEC numbers on those.)
>
>Cheers,
>Doug Pratt
>
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