[RE-wrenches] module / panel

[Jason Szumlanski]

Personally, I wouldn't want marketing people to read the NEC unless all
of our customers were reading the NEC, too. The reality is, when talking
to customers, a module is called a panel. When talking to you, a module
is a module. In customer speak, panel is to module as features are to
specifications. Panel is a softer word.

 

I have been known to scold a salesperson for mixing up power and energy,
though. J

 

Jason Szumlanski

Fafco Solar

 

 

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[mailto:re-wrenches-bounces at lists.re-wrenches.org] On Behalf Of David
Brearley
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Subject: Re: [RE-wrenches] module / panel

 

It tells me their marketing people have never read the NEC-no big
surprise there-and maybe they are new to the PV industry. 

But the term PV panel is also used so ubiquitously in place of the term
PV module-both in common parlance and in the industry-that it's probably
going to supersede the terms in the NEC over time. Since the NEC terms
were defined when modules were 50W each, one could make the case that a
250W module bears some resemblance to a panel, as originally conceived.

One new company that does know the difference is Solyndra. Each cylinder
in Solyndra-speak is a module. They refer to the field-installable
assembly is a panel. Technically perfect use of the terms.

My personal pet peeve is not keeping power and energy straight. We can
all distinguish between between miles-per-hour and miles. So how come
some people in this industry can't keep kW and kWh straight? That smells
fishy to me, especially in "technical sales" literature. 





 

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