[RE-wrenches] GT inverter for SWWP turbine

Thu Aug 11 09:47:43 PDT 2022

Same disastrous experience here as well with the Skyboxes.

We installed three – I now own them as I replaced them at my expense with another competing product.

Worse solar product I dealt with in the last 15 years.

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Skybox is discontinued and tech support is limited. There are still significant software issues with them that make them unreliable for battery back-up. We are in the process of replacing the 3 Skyboxes we wish we had never installed.

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On Wed, 10 Aug 2022 at 20:00, Maverick Brown via RE-wrenches <re-wrenches at lists.re-wrenches.org> wrote:

Jay

Have you (or any Wrench willing to share) installed SkyBox? If so, can you share your experience good or bad? 

Can you compare it to Sol-Ark? I’ve installed a half-dozen Sol-Arks but no SkyBox yet. I think I have a customer where SkyBox would be a good fit, but not enough personal data.  

Thanks in advance. 

Maverick Brown
Off-Grid Solar Commander since 2006
Maverick Solar Enterprises, Inc.

 • Solar Commander Remote Power

 • SunFlow Systems Cathodic Protection 
maverick at mavericksolar.com
512-460-9825

On Jun 28, 2022, at 6:26 PM, Jay via RE-wrenches <re-wrenches at lists.re-wrenches.org> wrote:

Hi Jeremy,

Sol ark and Outback skybox. 
Might be others. 

It might be tricky dealing with the wind machine w/o batteries. 

Jay

On Jun 28, 2022, at 4:12 PM, Jeremy Coxon via RE-wrenches <re-wrenches at lists.re-wrenches.org> wrote:

We have a customer who has a legacy off grid system which includes a SWWP whisper 200.  They now have utility power to the property and so they want to go straight grid tie and ditch the batteries and off grid system (even though it’s all in perfect working order).  Anyone know of an inverter that we could use to accomplish this goal?

Jeremy Coxon NABCEP 

Certified MWBE

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