[RE-wrenches] Panel Fire

[Travis Creswell]

Yeah, spooky pictures.  Certainly that was non-glass glazing.  I can make
out a way too unsecured wire at the top left of the array but that might
have been secured before the conflagration event.

Could these panels have been "home made" by someone in their garage?  I
regularly loose cells for sale on E-Bay and in the back of home power.
Someone's buying them.

Travis Creswell
Ozark Energy Services



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Sent: Wednesday, February 11, 2009 12:03 PM
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At the very least, it shows a good reason to not use any of those off-brand 
(or no brand) cheap unlisted panels that have been floating around lately.

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Drake Chamberlin" <drake.chamberlin at redwoodalliance.org>
To: "RE-wrenches" <re-wrenches at lists.re-wrenches.org>
Sent: Wednesday, February 11, 2009 8:48 AM
Subject: Re: [RE-wrenches] Panel Fire


> The last post on your discussion forum, from the person identified as BB, 
> looks the most likely.  The modules were large (250 W), corner mounted, 
> with plastic (instead of glass) "glazing."  The panels were able to flex 
> under wind load, and damage the internal conductors.  It looks to me from 
> the before photo, that the modules are already bowed a bit.  That could be

> an optical illusion.
>
> That the "glazing" was plastic is evidenced by the fact that it burned up.

> If the material was glass, it would not have disintegrated the way it did.

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