[RE-wrenches] [EXT] PID and iLumen

[Marco Mangelsdorf]

Thanks, August.

Yes, indeed I have been in communication with SunPower on this matter.
While they are supporting the use of the iLumen PID with their old style
positive-grounded arrays and transformerless inverters, they are not at the
point of bringing them in bulk from iLumen in Belgium to offer their
dealers.

I am trying to reestablish direct contact with Dirk at iLumen to see about
purchasing one or two at a time as I don't want to get a dozen of them.

And so it goes.

marco

On Wednesday, March 15, 2023, August Goers <august at luminalt.com> wrote:

> Hi Marco - You might want to check with SunPower again, my understanding
> is that they are planning on releasing a PID solution (it might be the
> iLumen PIDbox). I don't know about timing or other details at this point.
>
> Best, August
> Luminalt
>
> On Fri, Mar 10, 2023 at 5:23 PM Marco Mangelsdorf via RE-wrenches <
> re-wrenches at lists.re-wrenches.org> wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>> Have any of you sourced this device (see attached) from any U.S.
>> distributor?
>> It's used to be able to match old-style positive-grounded SunPower
>> modules with transformerless inverters and avoid the performance-robbing
>> surface polarization effect.
>> I was in contact with the manufacturer, iLumen, in Belgium and could
>> purchase them in quantity from them.
>> But I don't want to buy a dozen of them.  And SunPower (what's left of
>> it), isn't interested in purchasing them in bulk and reselling them to
>> their loyal channel partners.
>> Effectively their message is: it's your problem, deal with it.
>> Mahalo,
>> marco
>> _______________________________________________
>> List sponsored by Redwood Alliance
>>
>> Pay optional member dues here: http://re-wrenches.org
>>
>> List Address: RE-wrenches at lists.re-wrenches.org
>>
>> Change listserver email address & settings:
>> http://lists.re-wrenches.org/options.cgi/re-wrenches-re-wrenches.org
>>
>> There are two list archives for searching. When one doesn't work, try the
>> other:
>> https://www.mail-archive.com/re-wrenches@lists.re-wrenches.org/
>> http://lists.re-wrenches.org/pipermail/re-wrenches-re-wrenches.org
>>
>> List rules & etiquette:
>> http://www.re-wrenches.org/etiquette.htm
>>
>> Check out or update participant bios:
>> http://www.members.re-wrenches.org
>>
>>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.re-wrenches.org/pipermail/re-wrenches-re-wrenches.org/attachments/20230315/492fe9cf/attachment.htm>