[RE-wrenches] Generator choice for Sunny Island

[Drake]

Are you getting a good taper charge with this system? Are the 
batteries reaching a decent state of charge from the AC coupled 
connection with the inverter?

Thanks,

Drake


At 11:08 AM 7/23/2017, you wrote:
>August,
>
>             Of course the genny itself has its own emission of 
> noise but the environment its in certainly will affect its overall 
> "annoyance level".  Backed up to metal container is a negative, I 
> can't tell from the photo if the Kohler is on the side away from 
> most of the public, probably don't have to go on, you must have 
> thought of these things....it could have its own 
> (partial?)enclosure with some sound deadening qualities.  Hondas 
> are a little quieter but not that much, hopefully the darn thing 
> doesn't have to come on, eh?
>
>Nice set-up.
>
>Bill
>
>Feather River Solar Electric
>Bill Battagin, Owner
>4291 Nelson St.
>Taylorsville, CA 95983
>530.284.7849
>CA Lic 874049
>www.frenergy.net
>
>On 7/21/2017 11:39 AM, August Goers wrote:
>>All,
>>
>>I thought I'd provide an update on our setup since we've completed 
>>the install and commissioning. More or less, the installation went 
>>well. We did have one of the US Battery AGM L16 batteries dead on 
>>arrival with a bad cell. That bad battery screwed up the state of 
>>charge (SOC) calculations in the Sunny Island and made the SOC 
>>reading jump from ~ 80% to 19% in just a couple of minutes. It was 
>>easy to find the bad battery - all the batteries were about 6.5 v 
>>with the bad battery reading about 4.5 v. We pulled that battery 
>>out of the string for warranty replacement and are currently 
>>running it with seven batteries at 42 v nominal. It's cool that the 
>>Sunny Island allows for this. Other than that, the frequency shift 
>>derate between the Sunny Island and Sunny Boy is working perfectly 
>>and the system has more than enough capacity to run the loads 
>>during the summer months. I'd say the Kohler generator is the nice 
>>unit although it is a little loud for this application. If I had to 
>>do this portable application again, I'd probably just go with the Honda 7000.
>>
>>Thanks for your help! August
>
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