<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">William,<div>Outside yes, ocean no. Corrosion comes from moisture, the salt is just the fast acting catalyst, methinks. And the fog, no doubt. It's quite a bit drier hereabouts. I'll start keeping a weather eye out for failures on down the road, but so far so good.</div><div>Cheers, Bob-O</div><div><br></div><div><br><div><div>On Apr 18, 2009, at 5:57 PM, William Miller wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div> <font size="3">Bob-O:<br><br> Are you installing inverters outdoors near the ocean? That seems to be the biggest issue, corrosion on the IG series circuit boards. Fronius was touting their board coatings at the all day seminar, but now the plus series no longer has flow trough ventilation.<br><br> William<br><br> <br><br> At 04:14 PM 4/18/2009, you wrote:<br> <blockquote type="cite" class="cite" cite="">William,<br> Just the opposite situation here. We've been using Fronius almost exclusively for the past four years with very few issues at all. The few we have had Fronius tech support was all over it PDQ. <br> Go figure.<br> Bob-O_</blockquote></font></div></div></div></body></html>