[RE-wrenches] Enphase warranties
Drake
drake.chamberlin at redwoodalliance.org
Fri Oct 29 14:14:07 PDT 2010
The PVP 2000 is only 92% efficient.
At 04:59 PM 10/29/2010, you wrote:
>PV Powered. . .
>
>Best regards,
>
>Mark Dickson,
>NABCEP Certified Solar PV Installer
>
>
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>[mailto:re-wrenches-bounces at lists.re-wrenches.org] On Behalf Of Drake
>Sent: Friday, October 29, 2010 2:41 PM
>To: RE-wrenches
>Subject: Re: [RE-wrenches] Enphase warranties
>
>Enphase is looking a little shaky for the
>application at this point. Does anyone know of
>an efficient inverter that would work out well
>to AC couple with a pair of Outbacks on an 1800
>Watt array. The 90% efficiency range is what
>I've been seeing. The new high frequency SMA
>inverters look good, but last I heard were still tied up at UL.
>
>Drake
>
>
>At 03:54 PM 10/29/2010, you wrote:
>
>
>When I asked Enphase about AC coupling with
>their product a year ago the answer was a flat
>NO, so at least it appears they're moving in the right direction...
>
>
>Andrew Truitt
>NABCEP Certified PV Installer (ID# 032407-66)
>Truitt Renewable Energy Consulting
>(202) 486-7507
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>On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 1:43 PM, Mark Frye
><<mailto:markf at berkeleysolar.com>markf at berkeleysolar.com > wrote:
>Indeed an interesting game.
>
>However, I am considering Enphase for a large
>res retrofit which will recieve CSI funding. I
>am obligated to provide my customer equipment
>that will be warrantied by the manufacture for
>10 years. I have to have certainty NOW that the
>warranty will be honored in the application. I
>can not base the fulfillment of my contractual
>obligations on the passing whim of the support
>technician of the day. My project involves
>placing the Enphase below the ATS on a gen back
>up system, an application which Ehphase will not warrant in writing.
>
>So the question is, can I do the project at all?
>All you folks who are putting Enphase on the
>load side of grid-tied, battery based inverters
>need to ask yourself the same question. It
>appears that Nick already has his answer.
>
>Mark Frye
>Berkeley Solar Electric Systems
>303 Redbud Way
>Nevada City, CA 95959
>(530) 401-8024
><http://www.berkeleysolar.com/>www.berkeleysolar.com
>
>
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>[ mailto:re-wrenches-bounces at lists.re-wrenches.org] On Behalf Of Nick Soleil
>Sent: Friday, October 29, 2010 12:33 PM
>To: RE-wrenches
>Subject: Re: [RE-wrenches] Enphase warranties
> I bet if you don't push the issue, they
> will cover the warranty. If the inverter is
> truly failed, I am sure that you won't have an
> issue. But since they are so reliable, that
> probably won't happen anyway. However, if you
> were to install them in an ''off-grid"
> application, you can't expect them to guarantee
> the performance, which is what a 'written'
> guarantee implies. I bet SMA won't provide a
> written guarantee that they will perform when
> coupled to an FX inverter, either.
>
>
>Nick Soleil
>Project Manager
>Advanced Alternative Energy Solutions, LLC
>PO Box 657
>Petaluma, CA 94953
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