[RE-wrenches] Knockouts far from the backplane.

[Tyrone Houck]

Deeper gutters!-- 12x12 for 15k sol-ark and 10x10 for MNAIO



On Fri, Jul 25, 2025, 3:30 PM William Miller via RE-wrenches <
re-wrenches at lists.re-wrenches.org> wrote:

> Friends:
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> I have noticed increasingly that inverters I have been using (Soul-Arc and
> Fortress Envy) have knockouts that are far in front of the backplane on
> which the inverter would be mounted.  Connecting conduit from these
> inverters into standard gutters, load centers and pull boxes is quite a
> hassle:  Offsets can eat up a lot of vertical space.  Pulling elbows (LBs)
> don’t really work in this situation.
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> See diagram below:
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> One solutIon is to stack pull boxes or gutters, althouigh this eats up
> vertical space and increases the labor and parts count:
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> How are the rest of you handling this backplane problem?
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> Thanks in advance.
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> William Miller
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> Miller Solar
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> 17395 Oak Road, Atascadero, CA 93422
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> 805-438-5600
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> www.millersolar.com
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> CA Lic. 773985
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