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    <div class="moz-cite-prefix">I've got one customer that has one,
      they're pricey, but seem well made.  They had quite a few problems
      and are going to a regular AC generator setup and decent inverter/
      charger.<br>
      The off grid solar biz has tried DC gen sets several  times, and
      it has never worked out.  The theoretical gain in efficiency is
      not worth the loss in reliability.  <br>
      <pre class="moz-signature" cols="72">R.Ray Walters
CTO, Solarray, Inc
Nabcep Certified PV Installer, 
Licensed Master Electrician
Solar Design Engineer
303 505-8760</pre>
      On 3/10/2014 7:02 PM, James Jefferson Jarvis wrote:<br>
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      <p dir="ltr">I have a customer that runs a bunch of them and seems
        to like them.</p>
      <p dir="ltr">I sold one to another customer and Polar Power was
        pretty rude to both my employee and I. I haven't had the
        occasion to deal with them since, so I can't comment if that was
        an isolated incident or not.</p>
      <p dir="ltr">I will note that their control has a bunch of
        communications interfaces on it. But they weren't willing to
        support anything besides the ethernet interface ($$$ extra) and
        their software.</p>
      <p dir="ltr">-James Jefferson Jarvis<br>
        APRS World, LLC<br>
        <a moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://www.aprsworld.com">http://www.aprsworld.com</a><br>
        +1-507-454-2727</p>
      <p dir="ltr">(this message was sent from my cell phone ... my
        apologies for any spelling errors)</p>
      <div class="gmail_quote">On Mar 10, 2014 7:57 PM, "Tump" <<a
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          <div style="word-wrap:break-word">Anyone used/have feed back
            on these DC gensets? The supra controller has quite a bit to
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