[RE-wrenches] Knockouts far from the backplane.

[MD Electric & Solar]

Here's an example:
[image: IMG_0626.jpg]

On Fri, Jul 25, 2025 at 3:40 PM MD Electric & Solar <
mdelectricsolar at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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
>>
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Jul 25, 2025, 3:30 PM William Miller via RE-wrenches <
>> re-wrenches at lists.re-wrenches.org> wrote:
>>
>>> Friends:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> 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.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> 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:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> How are the rest of you handling this backplane problem?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Thanks in advance.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> William Miller
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Miller Solar
>>>
>>> 17395 Oak Road, Atascadero, CA 93422
>>>
>>> 805-438-5600
>>>
>>> www.millersolar.com
>>>
>>> CA Lic. 773985
>>>
>>>
>>>
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