[RE-wrenches] FW: Panel Fire

[Allan Sindelar]

I guess I'm not the only one who's suspicious of this whole story. This came
to me off list. Some of the post here doesn't jive - it's pretty clear
there's no glass, and the blurry corner doesn't look it to me. 
 
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I may be very wrong here and I don't mean to impugn anyone's integrity but
don't forget that in this era of digital animation movies you can't always
believe what you see in photo either. (I'm sure no one here has ever
Photoshopped a photo to make it more presentable looking.)  I couldn't help
but notice that the bottom right corner of the photo was surprisingly blurry
and indistinct.  It is difficult to distinguish one thing from the next,
when just a few feet away but out of the range of detail in the photo,
things seemed to be much clearer.  I've never seen a photo look like that in
reality.  It's as if the roof and array have mysteriously melted together.
Also, I have never seen tempered glass melt in a low temperature fire.  If
it were a high temperature fire the roof would not have survived.  I think
that a great deal of caution is warranted especially considering the lack of
detail that the poster is giving about the panels, location,
installer/supplier, existence of another array etc.  


--- On Wed, 2/11/09, Allan Sindelar <allan at positiveenergysolar.com> wrote:
One detail I haven't heard mentioned yet and am curious about - the photo of
the fire damage appears to show the corner of another west(?)-facing array.
I find it curious that the system owner described a 2 kW system made up of
eight 250W(!) modules, which are clearly visible in the topmost system
photo. 

There's just a whole lot that doesn't jive in this whole story. Scary to me
. 


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