[RE-wrenches] Knockouts far from the backplane.

[MD Electric & Solar]

Agreed. 12x12x whatever length is needed.

On Fri, Jul 25, 2025 at 3:39 PM Tyrone Houck via RE-wrenches <
re-wrenches at lists.re-wrenches.org> wrote:

> Deeper gutters!-- 12x12 for 15k sol-ark and 10x10 for MNAIO
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> On Fri, Jul 25, 2025, 3:30 PM William Miller via RE-wrenches <
> re-wrenches at lists.re-wrenches.org> wrote:
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>> 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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