[RE-wrenches] Dream system.

[Glenn Burt]

I would suggest a Solar Edge inverter system, some lithium batteries, an Aqueon battery system, a variety of safety equipment and trying to partner with a local installation firm for site visits, and possibly hands on work.

Sincerely,
Glenn Burt
Sent from my 'smart' phone so please excuse grammar and typos.

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From: "Solar" <dahlsolar at gmail.com>
Sent: ‎7/‎31/‎2015 17:05
To: "Wrenches" <RE-wrenches at lists.re-wrenches.org>
Subject: [RE-wrenches] Dream system.

Hello all,

I was recently hired to be the full time electrical instructor at a local community college. In the second year of the class there is a 6 credit "renewable energy and habitat house" course. I have been teaching at this college as an adjunct instructor since 2009 teaching for 3 of the 7 local iron ore mines,the local paper mill as well as doing most of the NEC code update courses. During that time I ran a one year and a 6 month solar PV course. I have a fairly nice lab built for the PV course consisting of the following:

2 axis tracker 
Fixed tilt pole mount 
20'x16' mock roof with shingles and metal roofing 
Enphase systems 
(3) 700W SMA inverters
Outback setup
Xantrax 600v 80A charge controller 
Magnum 4024 inverter (AC coupled goal with this) 
Tigos
300W Morningstar on a demo cart
Couple Solectria inverter (not used much)
Trace 4024 (purchased in 99)
Trace DR 1524 that goes along with our 1Kw Bergy 
Multiple battery brands and types AGM and flooded 
Pathfinders
Suneye (2 210s)
600V Solmetric PVA
Racking, quickmounts standoffs, clamps nuts and bolts...


Modules include: 90W sunwize, Solarwolrd 175, REC 215W, silicon energy 190W, kyocera 210W, solar frontier 100W (I think 100W) AEE 95W, Dasol 15, 30, 135w. 

Assuming I stay with this job for the next 25 years, which will take me into my early 60s and my goal, I will have a yearly budget to spend adding to this lab. 

Here is the question, seeing what we have now what individual pieces would you add or what system would you build with the goal of community education or training electrical students and electricians. 

Long winded but I am very interested to hear your ideas!

Have a good weekend and thanks!

Jesse



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