[RE-wrenches] Magnum inverter remote lightning protection?

Chris Mason cometenergysystems at gmail.com
Sat Apr 27 04:01:35 PDT 2013


You can get a telephone line lightning  protection device, we install them
on PBX incoming lines. Put one on both ends and ground properly.
http://www.citel2cp.com/rs485_rs232___industrial_network_surge_protection-g-17-en.html

Chris Mason
Comet Systems
Anguilla (264) 235-5670
St. Kitts  (869) 662-5670
skype netconcepts

NABCEP Certified Solar PV Installer™
Renewable Energy Systems professional
Generac Generators Factory technician
On Apr 27, 2013 2:31 AM, "Dan Fink" <danbob88 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Esteemed Wrenches;
>
> We are replacing a venerable but zorched Trace U-series with a Magnum for
> an off-grid  client. He has a "power shed" type install 100 feet from the
> house, and wants to be able to control and monitor the inverter from the
> house.
>
> The Magnum remote uses standard telephone cable, so no problem getting 100
> feet so far as I can tell, the included cable is 50 feet and there are no
> distance warnings in the docs. But what about lightning? His system is in a
> very lightning prone area of Colorado. Everything's grounded well, but the
> remote itself can't be tied in as far as I can tell. We'll bury the
> telephone cable, but still.....are there any products out there from the
> days of telephone landlines (remember those?) for lightning protection? Or
> is this a non-issue? I'd hate to zorch the new inverter just because of a
> surge from the remote cable.
>
> I love the Magnum remote, it's why we mostly install Magnum inverters now.
> I can walk even a novice off-grid client through troubleshooting and
> (sometimes) repairing a system over a sat phone from memory, without an
> owners manual on hand. Smooooth. But I have not run into this outdoor wire
> run situation with it yet.
>
> Thanks in advance;
>
>
> Dan Fink,
> Executive Director;
> Otherpower
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