[RE-wrenches] STRING INVERTER REQUEST, SPI10

Ryan J LeBlanc ryan at naturalenergyworks.com
Mon Oct 18 18:18:27 PDT 2010


At SPI10 right now, getting bigger and worse every year.  Same handful of
"Solar Celebs," same lack of insight, or a real market to apply it all to.

HEY SMA, FRONIUS, PVPOWERED, SOMEONE, MAKE A 3840W Inverter with CYCLING
MULTI STAGES, and MULTIPLE MPPT ALGO's!  Minimum of 3 MPPTS, and have it be
at least 96% eff.  Design, Manufacture, and List only one, make a bunch so
they can be cheap, but make them in a country that cares about environmental
responsibility and controls, preferably bringing us U.S. jobs.  It maximizes
a 20A breaker, that can take different and wide voltage ranges/string
lengths, open up particularly on the shorter side, allowing different
orientations and technologies, undersized arrays should be fine too due to
smaller, cycling stages.  Give us string level monitoring, which really is
plenty good enough for our purposes.  Call it the enphase-killer in some
Solarpro advertisement, show pictures of an enphase unit as a doorstop,
paperweight, meat-tenderizer, etc. and be done with this over-employed,
stop-gap of a technology.

Thanks

Ryan




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