[RE-wrenches] AFCI compatibility with modified waveforminverters

[All Solar, Inc. Jeremy Rodriguez]

Will not work with Xantrex TR series, formerly DR.
After the inverter was on for about 5 minutes, the AFCI breakers began 
tripping.

Jeremy
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Darryl Thayer" <daryl_solar at yahoo.com>
To: "RE-wrenches" <re-wrenches at lists.re-wrenches.org>
Sent: Sunday, March 28, 2010 10:53 PM
Subject: Re: [RE-wrenches] AFCI compatibility with modified 
waveforminverters


no direct experience, but I have been told they will not work.

--- On Sun, 3/28/10, Kent Osterberg <kent at coveoregon.com> wrote:

> From: Kent Osterberg <kent at coveoregon.com>
> Subject: [RE-wrenches] AFCI compatibility with modified waveform inverters
> To: "Wrenches" <re-wrenches at lists.re-wrenches.org>
> Date: Sunday, March 28, 2010, 5:11 PM
> Fellow wrenches,
>
> Does anyone have any experience with using AFCI breakers
> with modified waveform inverters? I've got a customer
> building a new weekend home that thinks he wants a modified
> waveform inverter, but I don't know if the required AFCI
> circuit breakers will work. A few years ago Xantrex
> published a list of GFCIs that would work with their
> modified waveform inverters. I haven't seen any such
> info about the AFCI breakers. Thanks.
>
> Kent Osterberg
> Blue Mountain Solar, Inc.
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