<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12pt">Yes, but atleast the QOU breakers are din rail mounted and your electrical distributor can probably get them from Square D. The XW system is sweet. The XW monitor (on the Xanbus network), with the Dual AC inputs provides a superior monitoring/control system. The system is far cleaner than any other off-grid inverter system, and amazingly, the customer can understand the controller! Which makes all the difference to me.<br><div> </div>Nick Soleil<br>Project Manager<br>Advanced Alternative Energy Solutions, LLC<br>PO Box 657<br>Petaluma, CA 94953<br>Cell: 707-321-2937<br>Office: 707-789-9537<br>Fax: 707-769-9037<div><br></div><div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br><div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size:
12pt;"><font size="2" face="Tahoma"><hr size="1"><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">From:</span></b> Allan Sindelar <allan@positiveenergysolar.com><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> RE-wrenches <re-wrenches@lists.re-wrenches.org><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Fri, October 23, 2009 12:56:37 PM<br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: [RE-wrenches] XW (was Outback "F"ware)<br></font><br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">William,</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">The first time I saw a prototype
of the XW system I groaned at the use of QOU breakers. Partly it was for the
reason you mention, and partly because the QOU had become a white elephant, not
used in our industry since the demise of the APT/Trace Powercenters. QOUs aren’t
normally stocked at our local SqD distributor, so we would have to carry yet
another stock of breakers, besides OBDC and the CBI lines. My comments to the
Xantrex techies didn’t make any difference, either.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">Allan Sindelar</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Ray:<br>
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Here's one specific complaint: When using Flexware, each QOU breaker
needs a separate lead to the bus for feed. Too bad we can't have a bus
bar for plug on breakers.<br>
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<span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">…</span>I emphasized that I would like to see
the AC KO a standard distance from the back plane to allow connection via
standard offset to an off-the-shelf load center. Never happened...<br>
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William Miller<br>
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