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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>One thing, Golden Genesis was playing around with
cadmium telluride thin film and they made a bunch of them, sending them to
locations all over the world before they decided to cancel production.
There was a huge array of them in an off-grid community west of Golden off I-70
called York Gulch (nothing organized, just an off-grid area where everyone had
some alternative power source). That array ran a couple of 48 volt Trace
inverters and powered a pretty good sized house.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>When they shut down production the outfit that sold
them the fabrication equipment bought back all the production equipment on the
condition that they could also have all the modules that had been produced and
were not in use. Sometime around the millenium they then put an ad in the
Denver papers offering modules for sale pretty cheap and I purchased a
truckload of them for practically nothing. The modules were 2'x2' square
and extremely heavy. They also were made with untempered plate glass and
could break if handled wrong.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>The panels had a 24 volt output but their
power rating varied from panel to panel with the idea being to create a big
array, measure the output and size for that. Not very handy from a design
standpoint. The individual panels or small arrays of them made for
great small systems, I used a couple of panels to charge the batteries for my
trolling motor.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Tom</FONT></DIV>
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<A title=allan@positiveenergysolar.com
href="mailto:allan@positiveenergysolar.com">Allan Sindelar</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A
title=re-wrenches@lists.re-wrenches.org
href="mailto:re-wrenches@lists.re-wrenches.org">'RE-wrenches'</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Sunday, November 23, 2008 10:59
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> [RE-wrenches] Golden Genesis
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<P><FONT face="Times New Roman">Old time Wrenches, I need a history lesson,
please…</FONT> </P>
<P><FONT face="Times New Roman">We removed a Y2K system installed by someone
else, before a home was put on the market. All equipment was resold.
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<P><FONT face="Times New Roman">The array consisted of ten Golden Genesis 12V
120W modules. Six were sold with racks, but four went to one of our existing
customers. I ordered a DP&W pole-top rack for them.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face="Times New Roman">When the time came to install them the rack
didn't fit. We redrilled holes and it all went together, but I was ready to
rake DP&W over the coals until I discovered that the mistake was mine: the
terminal circuit board inside a j-box showed that these were actually
Astropower AP120s. I had assumed that these were the common KC-120s of that
time, that had been private-labeled with Golden Genesis' name. </FONT></P>
<P><FONT face="Times New Roman">Golden Genesis was a Coors Brewing (of Golden,
Colorado) spinoff that got into PV for a few years around that time. My
understanding is that they bought the entire Photocomm name and distribution
network, as well as played with thin-film development for awhile (gallium
arsenide?). Photocomm had been the U.S. distributor for Kyocera for years.
Eventually GG sold out to Kyocera USA, which is what we have now.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face="Times New Roman">Who can fill me in on all this? Joel?</FONT>
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<P><FONT face=g>Allan Sindelar</FONT> <BR><A
href="mailto:allan@positiveenergysolar.com"><U></U><U><FONT face=g
color=#0000ff size=2>allan_(at)_positiveenergysolar.com</FONT></U></A>
<BR><FONT face=g size=2>NABCEP certified solar PV installer</FONT> <BR><FONT
face=g size=2>Positive Energy, Inc.</FONT> <BR><FONT face=g size=2>3225A
Richards Lane</FONT> <BR><FONT face=g size=2>Santa Fe NM 87507</FONT>
<BR><FONT face=g size=2>505 424-1112</FONT> </P>
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