<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Hiya Ray,<div>In my experience, off-grid is always as steady as it ever was except for the Y2K burp. Those of us who know how to design and install for that market will always have <span class="Apple-style-span" style="text-decoration: underline;">some</span> work, even in a crappy economy. At NABCEP, we take a lot of heat from all the new on-grid only installers who don't see or understand the value in learning about battery-based systems. They would like us to drop that part of the task analysis entirely from the Certification. I, for one, am resisting that insisting that's part of the overall trade. I'm concerned that if we certify installers without testing for battery knowledge, they will go and install a battery based system sooner or later anyway and NABCEP will look like fools if they muck it up.</div><div>Bob-O</div><div><br></div><div><br><div><div>On Nov 23, 2009, at 10:15 AM, R Ray Walters wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><div>Funny, because although Off grid has remained relatively slow compared to the crazy GT market, its also been very steady.</div><div><br class="khtml-block-placeholder"></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Ray</span></div></span></div>
<br><div><div>On Nov 23, 2009, at 9:07 AM, <a href="mailto:Windsun@wind-sun.com">Windsun@wind-sun.com</a> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div bgcolor="#ffffff"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font size="2" face="Calibri">Nearly everything so far that we have been seeing shortages in is in off-grid equipment. We have not seen a huge increase or decrease in off-grid, but apparently some of the mfg's decided there would be a big drop. With the exception of a couple of particular models of inverters, we have seen no real shortages in grid tie.</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font size="2" face="Arial"></font> </div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font size="2" face="Arial">..................................................................................................<br>Northern Arizona Wind & Sun - Electricity From The Sun Since 1979<br>Solar Discussion Forum:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.wind-sun.com/ForumVB/">http://www.wind-sun.com/ForumVB/</a><br>..................................................................................................</font></div></div></span></blockquote></div></div></div></div></body></html>