<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">That's the answer I thought I'd get from most. It's hard to explain the "days of autonomy" and extended bad weather to people. Most just say, "why don't you just make a recommendation." That puts me in a spot where I want to overbuild, which drives up cost.</div>
<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">The other challenge is getting people to tell you the real story about what they plan to plug in. They think 100W @ 120V continuous load 24 hours a day sounds like a very small load. When you hit them with a ~1kW system with a ~10kWh battery (with ample reliability factors considered), they freak out. Then you find out that the camera they wanted to plug in only draws 18W @ 12V (no inverter required). That's a big difference.</div>
<br><br><div id="WISESTAMP_SIG_gmail_session"><div style="font-size:13px;font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><div style="margin:0 0 8px 0"><p style="margin:0"><span><span>Jason </span></span></p></div></div></div>
</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Jan 20, 2014 at 3:46 PM, Larry Crutcher, Starlight Solar Power Systems <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:larry@starlightsolar.com" target="_blank">larry@starlightsolar.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word">Jason,<div><br></div><div>We get quite a few of these from US Border Patrol, GM Proving Grounds and other agencies. I always do custom design since every job has different parameters like days of autonomy or remote monitoring/control (SCADA).<br>
<div><br><br>Larry Crutcher<br><div><br><br><br></div>
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<br><div><div><div class="h5"><div>On Jan 20, 2014, at 1:17 PM, Jason Szumlanski <<a href="mailto:Jason@fafcosolar.com" target="_blank">Jason@fafcosolar.com</a>> wrote:</div><br><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">
What do you do for very small off-grid systems that people want for specific equipment? Do you have a "go-to" configuration, or do you size and design everything custom?</div>
<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">For example, I frequently get, "I want to run cameras at a remote site and the total requirement is 100W, 24 hours a day."</div>
<div><br></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">It's not economical to reinvent the wheel every time. </div><br></div><br><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">
Jason Szumlanski</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Fafco Solar</div></div></div></div>
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