[RE-wrenches] Dangerous installs/installers..

[bob ellison]

I have a fellow in this area that does bad installs and he is on the NYSERDA list.

I get called a couple times a year to upgrade / repair his installs. 

It is not uncommon to find the incoming solar run into the building and inside the walls using rubber cord, (SO cord) no disconnect, just run it from the panels into the outside wall and through the studs around the building. Then coming out and going into the controller. In one case the batteries were on a rack with no venting in the same room with his wood furnace. The owner explained that it was “safe” because the walls were ¾ fire rated dry wall! 

Yep, that helps. 

 

Just thought I would add this to the list, because they are out there.

Bob Ellison

 

From: re-wrenches-bounces at lists.re-wrenches.org [mailto:re-wrenches-bounces at lists.re-wrenches.org] On Behalf Of Allan Sindelar
Sent: Saturday, May 07, 2011 7:26 PM
To: RE-wrenches
Subject: Re: [RE-wrenches] installs/installers..

 

Todd,
Don't forget that I warned you and Bob-O, and Bob-O sternly cautioned him not to touch a system without a license that he couldn't get.
Allan

On 5/7/2011 3:00 PM, toddcory at finestplanet.com wrote:

Ahem, yes... right here in Mount Shasta. Thanks guys.

Todd

On Saturday, May 7, 2011 12:34pm, "R Ray Walters"  <mailto:ray at solarray.com> <ray at solarray.com> said:

As far as your competitor doing bad work, we had the same problem for years with a guy who was finally run out of Taos by the inspector and a growing list of angry customers. He's now in California doing Wholesale Solar.

 

-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.re-wrenches.org/pipermail/re-wrenches-re-wrenches.org/attachments/20110508/5b87beee/attachment-0004.html>