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<div>Hi Peter,</div>
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<div>I don't have history with the PV Powered's but they have a 30 KW
I've heard good things about.</div>
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<div>A couple of Solectria 15 KWs would make a nice balance between
"single inverter" and redundancy and ease of install. </div>
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<div>2 or 3 Fronius IGPlus 12 KWs would also be a good solution.
Power One (Aurora) also has a 12.5 KW with multiple channel inputs and
other nice features. Wall mount advantage here too.</div>
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<div>And if wall mount is important you don't need the Tower - just
mount 4 or 5 Sunny Boy 7KWs above a gutter.</div>
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<div>Lot's of ways to do it.</div>
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<div>Hope that helps!</div>
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<div>Best,</div>
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<div>Jeff C.</div>
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<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Arial" size="-1"
color="#000000">We haven't designed/installed a 30 kW-dc class
system for some time now (last time we used a Xantrex PV 30) and are
currently investigating what is available in terms of single inverters
with 240V 3Ph output. Our customer has enough roof space to for 58 kWp
of modules, but we have to split the AC output into two separate
services. So the first thing I've noticed is that there are not many
inverters in the 30 kW range: Satcon PowerGate 30, Xantrex GT30 and by
comparison a Sunny Tower with 6ea 6 kW SB
inverters.</font></blockquote>
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<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Arial" size="-1"
color="#000000">We will be feeding 240 3P so the GT30 and ST will need
transformers.</font></blockquote>
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color="#000000"> </font></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Arial" size="-1"
color="#000000">So, I'm inclined to look more carefully into the
PowerGate 30, first.</font></blockquote>
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<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Arial" size="-1"
color="#000000">I am looking for some feedback from folks who have
recently installed 30 kW inverters. If this is contained in an
archived thread, please direct me appropriately.</font></blockquote>
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<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Arial" size="-1"
color="#000000">- Peter</font></blockquote>
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