[RE-wrenches] Panel Fire

[Engineering Services Co.]

I tracked this down on Whitepages.com

http://yellowpages.superpages.com/mapbasedsearch/mapsearch.jsp?SRC=comwp&C=Marriage+To+Go+Com&T=beverly+hills&S=CA&STYPE=S&L=Beverly+Hills+CA&R=N&EG=1&RR=10&LID=2064408120&map.x=212&map.y=125&level=8&lat=034022631&lng=-118449410&POI1lat=034022631&POI1lng=-118449410&POI1name=Marriage+To+Go+Com&streetaddress=3435+Ocean+Park+Boulevard&city=Santa+Monica&state=CA&zip=90405&spad=no


Ken Hulet
Engineering Services Co.
204 S. Main St.
Blanchardville, WI 53516
608.523.3726



On Feb 12, 2009, at 7:58 PM, Joel Davidson wrote:

> Maybe I missed this information, but does anyone know
> 1) the address of this system?
> 2) the installer?
> See http://www.marriagetogo.com/homeoffice.html
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Michael Welch
> To: 'RE-wrenches'
> Sent: Wednesday, February 11, 2009 6:48 PM
> Subject: Re: [RE-wrenches] Panel Fire
>
> This seems corroborating. It has GOT to be the same situation:
> http://www.examiner.com/x-432-Wedding-and-Marriage- 
> Examiner~y2009m2d10-Our-wedding-anniversary-like-a-house-on-fire- 
> literally
>
> Search the page for "solar" to get to the crux of it, and .
>
> P.S. Tempered glass won't melt, but clear plastic goop poured over  
> the top of silicon cells (which can be seen littering the roof) will  
> melt. These are probably homemade modules. What I see on the charred  
> roof is consistent with plastic encapsulated modules burning and  
> melting. Also, the racking is consistent with the first pre-fire  
> photo.
>
> These poor folks really got taken to the cleaners by their  
> "installer" which MUST BE STOPPED.
>
> Brian Sipp wrote at 06:17 PM 2/11/2009:
>
>> 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 a 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:
>> From: Allan Sindelar <allan at positiveenergysolar.com>
>> Subject: Re: [RE-wrenches] Panel Fire
>> To: "'RE-wrenches'" <re-wrenches at lists.re-wrenches.org>
>> Date: Wednesday, February 11, 2009, 12:57 PM
>> 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.
>> Allan at + NRG
>
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