[RE-wrenches] Mobile Solar power Center

[Starlight Solar, Yuma, AZ]

Our business is now 100% off grid and mobile systems. We see many  
Prosine inverters fail and fail again. Just FYI.

Larry Crutcher

On Jan 19, 2009, at 5:39 PM, Wallace Stahle wrote:

>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Peter Parrish" <peter.parrish at calsolareng.com>
>> inverter I'll be using (Xantrex Prosine 1000). Does anyone have a  
>> source
> for
>
>
> I put a Prosine 2500 w/charger in a same purpose trailer 10 years  
> ago and it
> worked great for a year and a half and at one event on the  
> beachfront I
> showed up, fired it up, it powered up fine and as the stage  
> continued to
> plug things in the smoke was suddenly released.  OH NO now what?
> A local with public event history there at the beach showed up with a
> pigtail and tapped into the Light pole power at the base as he  
> occasionlly
> did for events and I left with my pride bruised. I now bring a spare
> inverter to cover my assets, reliability.
> Reliability in those PR events is critical.
>
> I want to build a larger one and would definitely start with at  
> least the OB
> or Magnum.
>
> The worst part was Statpower just sent me a new warrenty replacement  
> unit as
> they are not repairable here but sent back to China I was told, so no
> feedback on failure mode and the error code was not relevant.
>
> I tried to open the unit up to inspect it but the assembly order was  
> not
> evident even after 20 or so screws so screwed it back up before I  
> screwed it
> up.
>
> Have fun with it.
> Wallace Stahle
>
>
>
> Also, when trying to get load estimates for events the sound  
> engineer idea
> of watts is way over actual AC watts RMS required.
> Does anybody know how to adjust speaker peak watts to likely AC load  
> watts?
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