[RE-wrenches] Grid-Tie Upgrade Problem

[Warren Lauzon]

The Vmp of those is 33.7 volts, so what you might want to do is just come up with a set of panels that would equal 10 of the SX120's within 5% or less. As I recall, the SX120's had a rather poor temperature coefficient compared to todays panels, so that might be hard to match up.


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  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Allan Sindelar 
  To: RE-wrenches 
  Sent: Thursday, February 18, 2010 8:07 AM
  Subject: [RE-wrenches] Grid-Tie Upgrade Problem


  Fellow Wrenches,
  One of our first batteryless grid-tied installations needs an upgrade and I need to ask this list for suggestions re how it might be done.

  In late 2001 we installed two poles in the ground at a home. On one pole we mounted ten BP SX120s on a dual-axis Wattsun tracker. Input fed an SMA SB2500 inverter. The idea was that we would install 1/2 of the system then (what the customer could afford), with the infrastructure in place to add a second tracked array later. The system has worked flawlessly since then.

  Nine years (!) later the customer wants to add to the system, and I'd like to use the original approach if at all possible. We can fit up to around 1500 watts onto the existing inverter, but it must be in the form of ten 72-cell modules of similar Vmp, temperature deration coefficient, and fill factor. I am imagining ten 150W 24Vnom polycrystalline modules, but I don't know of any currently made. 

  I thought it would be easy - ten Kyocera KC130s or KD135s, until a coworker pointed out that these are 12V modules - duh...

  Any suggested solutions out there?

  Thank you,
  Allan

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