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<DIV><FONT face=Arial>Amazing how this ' stuff ' just bounces around--Note the '
for more info' box at the bottom of the examiner article.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial>It's the Fire Link.com story wrenches discussed last
week-----------</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial>Ken</FONT></DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>----- Original Message ----- </DIV>
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<DIV
style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><B>From:</B>
<A title=michael.welch@re-wrenches.org
href="mailto:michael.welch@re-wrenches.org">Michael Welch</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> Wednesday, February 11, 2009 9:48
PM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: [RE-wrenches] Panel
Fire</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>This seems corroborating. It has GOT to be the same
situation:<BR><A
href="http://www.examiner.com/x-432-Wedding-and-Marriage-Examiner~y2009m2d10-Our-wedding-anniversary-like-a-house-on-fire-literally"
eudora="autourl">http://www.examiner.com/x-432-Wedding-and-Marriage-Examiner~y2009m2d10-Our-wedding-anniversary-like-a-house-on-fire-literally<BR><BR></A>Search
the page for "solar" to get to the crux of it, and .<BR><BR>P.S. Tempered
glass won't melt, but clear plastic goop poured over the top of silicon cells
(which can be seen littering the roof) will melt. These are probably homemade
modules. What I see on the charred roof is consistent with plastic
encapsulated modules burning and melting. Also, the racking is consistent with
the first pre-fire photo.<BR><BR>These poor folks really got taken to the
cleaners by their "installer" which MUST BE STOPPED.<BR><BR>Brian Sipp wrote
at 06:17 PM 2/11/2009:<BR> <BR>
<BLOCKQUOTE class=cite cite="" type="cite">I may be very wrong here and I
don’t mean to impugn anyone’s integrity, but don’t forget that in this
era of digital animation movies you can’t always believe what you see in a
photo either. (I'm sure no one here has ever Photoshop<FONT
face="Times New Roman, Times">p</FONT>ed a photo to make it more presentable
looking.) I couldn't help but notice that the bottom right corner of
the photo was surprisingly blurry and indistinct. It is difficult to
distinguish one thing from the next, when just a few feet away but out of
the range of detail in the photo, things seemed to be much clearer.
I’ve never seen a photo look like that in reality. It’s as if the
roof and array have mysteriously melted together. Also, I have never
seen tempered glass melt in a low temperature fire. If it were a high
temperature fire the roof would not have survived. I think that a
great deal of caution is warranted especially considering the lack of detail
that the poster is giving about the panels, location, installer/supplier,
existence of another array etc.<BR><BR>--- On <B>Wed, 2/11/09, Allan
Sindelar <I><allan@positiveenergysolar.com></I></B> wrote:
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<DD>From: Allan Sindelar <allan@positiveenergysolar.com>
<DD>Subject: Re: [RE-wrenches] Panel Fire
<DD>To: "'RE-wrenches'" <re-wrenches@lists.re-wrenches.org>
<DD>Date: Wednesday, February 11, 2009, 12:57 PM<BR>
<DD>One detail I haven't heard mentioned yet and am curious about - the
photo of the fire damage appears to show the corner of another
west(?)-facing array. I find it curious that the system owner described a
2 kW system made up of eight 250W(!) modules, which are clearly visible in
the topmost system photo.
<DD>
<DD>There's just a whole lot that doesn't jive in this whole story. Scary
to me.
<DD>Allan at + NRG </DD></DL></BLOCKQUOTE>
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