<html><body bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><div>I Went to the Bahamas and checked a system with 5 SW inverters in 3 locations on the island and they were all trashed by the salt environent</div><div>They were All trashed to the point that the cases were rusting. I was told they were under 5 years old and had not worked in a "few years"</div><div>This was an expensive system with surrette cased cells that were boiled dry by some unknown controller (the cover was missing and I had never seen it before)</div><div><br></div><div>My cure, was outback sealed inverters for any salt air enviroment and I would never use an open inverter within 200 miles of any coast </div><div>They bought a huge generator instead !</div><div><br></div><div><br>Sent from my iPod<div>Bob Ellison</div></div><div><br>On Nov 3, 2010, at 12:51 AM, William Miller <<a href="mailto:william@millersolar.com">william@millersolar.com</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><div></div><blockquote type="cite"><div>
<font size="3">Friends:<br><br>
Speaking of life expectancy, has anyone had experience with SW inverters
in a coastal environment?<br><br>
William Miller</font>
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