[RE-wrenches] question about Xantrex AGS

Jason Szumlanski jason at fafcosolar.com
Fri Aug 17 06:59:49 PDT 2012


Can they rebuild the boards that are fully encapsulated in clear gel? I was
under the impression that these were not serviceable.

Jason Szumlanski
Fafco Solar


On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 8:57 PM, Chris Mason
<cometenergysystems at gmail.com>wrote:

> Ron,
> If your client wants to keep the Onan, Flight Systems can rebuild the
> board for a small fee. I have used them for other generator controllers and
> they are very reasonable.
>
> On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 6:30 PM, Ron @ earthRight Solar <
> solareagle at solareagle.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi Wrenches,
>>
>> I have a client that has burned up two control boards on an Onan-Cummings
>> 5.5 kw propane generator. The system includes an XW 6048 inverter, XW MPPT
>> c.c., and the Onan generator. System has worked well for several years but
>> recently burned up the control board on the Onan. Client decided to
>> purchase a new Onan instead of paying $1k for a new control board. The new
>> Onan lasted one week and the same result, control board fried. He is
>> consulting with me at this point - I didn't supply any of this equpt. - and
>> Onan supplier is being completely unhelpful. I'm trying to do a little
>> detective work here and discover the cause of the problem. I'm wondering if
>> it could be the XW-AGS possibly sending too high voltage to the Onan
>> controller. Has anyone had issues with these? Any suggestions?
>>
>> Ron Young
>>
>> earthRight Products - Solareagle.com
>>
>> Williams Lake, BC
>> V2G 2A3
>>
>>
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