[RE-wrenches] outback fx series inverters

[Hilton Dier III]

It's a sad fact of life that people will attribute their ills to 
whatever is new, strange, or emotionally unappealing to them. In Vermont 
right now the woo-woos are afraid of wireless internet routers, wireless 
smart meters, and wind turbines.

You have several choices.

Call their game - tell them that you are sorry that they feel ill but 
that scientifically speaking it can't be from the inverter. Inform them 
of all the studies showing that people can't actually feel EMF or any 
kind of RF (short of sitting inside a radar dish and cooking). They 
should look elsewhere for relief - like a good therapist. If they are 
offended by that then maybe they will find another installer to bother 
and your life will be improved.

Play their game - Faraday cage the thing or whatever the quacks want you 
to do. Charge full boat and a half for that kind of nonsense.

Play your game - figure out something easy to do, attribute the EMF to 
that, and do it. I once had a potential client (luckily I didn't get the 
job) ask for a copper box around the batteries to reduce the "harmful 
waves." I assured her that she was somewhat misinformed; if there were 
any waves to be emitted, that they would come from the cables between 
the batteries and the inverter. All I would have to do is wrap the 
cables around each other in a spiral and the waves would be canceled 
out. She was satisfied with that. It was just my confidently expressed 
mumbo jumbo instead of hers, and it would cost her zero as opposed to a 
copper box. (Actually, widely spaced battery cables can be a source of 
RFI, so I wasn't totally spoofing her.)

Good luck,

Hilton

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Hilton Dier III
Renewable Energy Design
Partner, Solar Gain LLC
453 East Hill Rd.
Middlesex, VT 05602

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