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Wrenches,<br>
We have worked with Outback Radian and Schneider XW once or twice
each for grid-tie with backup, and with Sunny Boy/Sunny Island
numerous times. The SMA is certainly the most sophisticated
equipment, but also the most expensive. <br>
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For a particular job coming up, the loads are not excessive, and the
array will be 8kW. The main hitch is that the array will be located
on a barn roof that is about 500' from the BOS and home.<br>
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I suspect that running high-voltage DC from the array to a Sunny
Boy, and then feeding a pair of Sunny Islands makes the most sense.
My question is this: does it make any sense to consider running two
high-voltage subarrays 500' to two Schneider XW-MPPT-80 600V charge
controllers, feeding two XW inverters (in order to handle the full
8kW) in a DC-coupled approach? <br>
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Is there ever a situation in which this would be a better solution
than SMA?<br>
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Thank you, as always,<br>
Allan<br>
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<b>Positive Energy, Inc.</b><br>
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