<p dir="ltr">Yes, no problem. Lots of commercial installations are 208.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Chris Mason<br>
Comet Systems<br>
Anguilla (264) 235-5670<br>
St. Kitts (869) 662-5670<br>
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<p dir="ltr">NABCEP Certified Solar PV Installer™<br>
Renewable Energy Systems professional<br>
Generac Generators Factory technician</p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Feb 9, 2014 4:20 PM, <<a href="mailto:william@millersolar.com">william@millersolar.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple"><div><p class="MsoNormal">Friends:<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">I feel sort of stupid asking this, but it has never come up for me before:<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">I have inherited an off-grid install gone-wrong. The system is 208 three phase with Sunny Boys and Sunny Islands on a mini grid. It was designed as three phase. I presume this was to increase capability with stacked SMA inverters.<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">Will the household appliances (small cooktop, booster pump, well pump) run as well on 208 as 240?<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">
I always do my research before wasting all of your time. The web delivered a lot of “forums” wherein opinions were expressed, but little hard data from bona fide professionals. I also did some calculations, see below. I downloaded a manual from a random electric range and saw it was specified as 240 or 208.<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="227" style="width:170.0pt;border-collapse:collapse"><tr style="height:15.75pt"><td width="99" nowrap valign="bottom" style="width:74.0pt;border-top:1.5pt;border-left:1.5pt;border-bottom:1.0pt;border-right:1.0pt;border-color:windowtext;border-style:solid;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;height:15.75pt">
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style>Watts</span><span style><u></u><u></u></span></p></td><td width="64" nowrap valign="bottom" style="width:48.0pt;border-top:solid windowtext 1.5pt;border-left:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.0pt;border-right:solid windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;height:15.75pt">
<p class="MsoNormal" align="right" style="text-align:right"><span style>4000</span><span style><u></u><u></u></span></p></td><td width="64" nowrap valign="bottom" style="width:48.0pt;border-top:solid windowtext 1.5pt;border-left:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.0pt;border-right:solid windowtext 1.5pt;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;height:15.75pt">
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style> </span><span style><u></u><u></u></span></p></td></tr><tr style="height:15.0pt"><td width="99" nowrap valign="bottom" style="width:74.0pt;border-top:none;border-left:solid windowtext 1.5pt;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.0pt;border-right:solid windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;height:15.0pt">
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style> </span><span style><u></u><u></u></span></p></td><td width="64" nowrap valign="bottom" style="width:48.0pt;border-top:none;border-left:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.0pt;border-right:solid windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;height:15.0pt">
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style> </span><span style><u></u><u></u></span></p></td><td width="64" nowrap valign="bottom" style="width:48.0pt;border-top:none;border-left:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.0pt;border-right:solid windowtext 1.5pt;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;height:15.0pt">
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style> </span><span style><u></u><u></u></span></p></td></tr><tr style="height:15.0pt"><td width="99" nowrap valign="bottom" style="width:74.0pt;border-top:none;border-left:solid windowtext 1.5pt;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.0pt;border-right:solid windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;height:15.0pt">
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style>Volts</span><span style><u></u><u></u></span></p></td><td width="64" nowrap valign="bottom" style="width:48.0pt;border-top:none;border-left:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.0pt;border-right:solid windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;height:15.0pt">
<p class="MsoNormal" align="right" style="text-align:right"><span style>240</span><span style><u></u><u></u></span></p></td><td width="64" nowrap valign="bottom" style="width:48.0pt;border-top:none;border-left:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.0pt;border-right:solid windowtext 1.5pt;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;height:15.0pt">
<p class="MsoNormal" align="right" style="text-align:right"><span style>208</span><span style><u></u><u></u></span></p></td></tr><tr style="height:15.0pt"><td width="99" nowrap valign="bottom" style="width:74.0pt;border-top:none;border-left:solid windowtext 1.5pt;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.0pt;border-right:solid windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;height:15.0pt">
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style>Amps</span><span style><u></u><u></u></span></p></td><td width="64" nowrap valign="bottom" style="width:48.0pt;border-top:none;border-left:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.0pt;border-right:solid windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;height:15.0pt">
<p class="MsoNormal" align="right" style="text-align:right"><span style>16.67</span><span style><u></u><u></u></span></p></td><td width="64" nowrap valign="bottom" style="width:48.0pt;border-top:none;border-left:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.0pt;border-right:solid windowtext 1.5pt;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;height:15.0pt">
<p class="MsoNormal" align="right" style="text-align:right"><span style>19.23</span><span style><u></u><u></u></span></p></td></tr><tr style="height:30.75pt"><td width="99" valign="bottom" style="width:74.0pt;border-top:none;border-left:solid windowtext 1.5pt;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.5pt;border-right:solid windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;height:30.75pt">
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style>% Difference in amps</span><span style><u></u><u></u></span></p></td><td width="64" nowrap valign="bottom" style="width:48.0pt;border-top:none;border-left:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.5pt;border-right:solid windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;height:30.75pt">
<p class="MsoNormal" align="right" style="text-align:right"><span style>13.33%</span><span style><u></u><u></u></span></p></td><td width="64" nowrap valign="bottom" style="width:48.0pt;border-top:none;border-left:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.5pt;border-right:solid windowtext 1.5pt;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;height:30.75pt">
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style> </span><span style><u></u><u></u></span></p></td></tr></table><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">I am fairly comfortable that this is not an issue, but would like some confirmation. Thanks in advance.<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">William<u></u><u></u></p></div></div><br>_______________________________________________<br>
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