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<p style="margin:0;padding:0;font-family: arial; font-size: 14pt; word-wrap: break-word;"><br /><br />On Monday, October 20, 2014 1:51pm, "Corey Shalanski" <cshalanski@joule-energy.com> said:<br /><br /></p>
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<div style="font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Since my previous post (see below) we have recovered the faulty modules and are now looking to replace the <span class="" style="background: #ffffcc;">diodes</span> in order to make them functional again. I have had no success sourcing replacement <span class="" style="background: #ffffcc;">diodes</span> from the original module manufacturer, Mage Solar.</div>
<div style="font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Can anyone recommend a source for replacement <span class="" style="background: #ffffcc;">diodes</span>?</div>
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<div style="font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Corey Shalanski</div>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Aug 5, 2014 at 10:27 AM, <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:re-wrenches-request@lists.re-wrenches.org" target="_blank">re-wrenches-request@lists.re-wrenches.org</a>></span> wrote:<br />
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; border-left-width: 1px; border-left-color: #cccccc; border-left-style: solid; padding-left: 1ex;"><br />Message: 10<br />Date: Tue, 5 Aug 2014 09:03:09 -0500<br />From: Corey Shalanski <<a href="mailto:cshalanski@joule-energy.com" target="_blank">cshalanski@joule-energy.com</a>><br />To: <a href="mailto:RE-wrenches@lists.re-wrenches.org" target="_blank">RE-wrenches@lists.re-wrenches.org</a><br />Subject: [RE-wrenches] <span class="" style="color: #222222; background: #ffffcc;">Diode</span> Failure<br />Message-ID:<br />        <<a href="mailto:CA%2BSmqZ1C7KSZuQnVzQr0MMuX3F2dT6YDuM40iseCzr2EJRgA%2BQ@mail.gmail.com" target="_blank">CA+SmqZ1C7KSZuQnVzQr0MMuX3F2dT6YDuM40iseCzr2EJRgA+Q@mail.gmail.com</a>><br />Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"<br /><br />Wrenches,<br /><br />We recently were contacted by a customer who reported a <span class="" style="color: #222222; background: #ffffcc;">lightning</span> <span class="" style="color: #222222; background: #ffffcc;">strike</span><br />close to his house. His online monitoring revealed that 30 of 35<br />microinverters simultaneously stopped producing power. On initial visit to<br />the jobsite we measured Voc on many modules - either 12V or 24V instead of<br />rated 36V. On a second visit we discovered that bypass <span class="" style="color: #222222; background: #ffffcc;">diodes</span> - either 1 or<br />2 corresponding to observed voltage loss - had failed on each of the faulty<br />modules.<br /><br />My question is: Can anyone support the theory that a nearby <span class="" style="color: #222222; background: #ffffcc;">lightning</span> flash<br />can cause mass bypass <span class="" style="color: #222222; background: #ffffcc;">diode</span> failure?<br /><br />--<br />Corey Shalanski<br />Joule Energy<br />New Orleans, LA</blockquote>
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