
<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Hi Dan, the application is for a small municipality that wants to light up trees on a street. Running low voltage DC lines would be a good solution except for the cost of running/hiding the wires. I don’t really see a good option here.<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Ron Young</div><div class="">earthRight Solar<br class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Jun 3, 2017, at 9:06 AM, Dan Fink <<a href="mailto:danbob88@gmail.com" class="">danbob88@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class="">Is this lighting the tree itself as a landscaping highlight, or stringing Xmas lights in it?<div class="">For the latter, all I've seen is cheap Costco stuff.</div><div class="">For the former, I'd go with a central PV/battery location and run low-voltage lines to each tree, with a commercial-grade LED light. The placement of individual PV for each tree would be problematic and likely more intrusive visually than a nicely-sited PV/battery box, and all the individual tree systems I've seen were low quality.</div><div class="">And your client could still tell everyone that his accent landscape lights are solar...</div><div class=""><br class=""></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all" class=""><div class=""><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class=""><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px" class="">Dan Fink</span><div style="font-size:12.8000001907349px" class="">Professor of Solar Energy Technology, Ecotech Institute</div><div style="font-size:12.8000001907349px" class="">IREC Certified Instructor™ for: </div><div style="font-size:12.8000001907349px" class="">~ PV Installation Professional</div><div style="font-size:12.8000001907349px" class="">~ Small Wind Installer</div><div style="font-size:12.8000001907349px" class="">Executive Director, Buckville Energy</div><div style="font-size:12.8000001907349px" class="">NABCEP Registered Continuing Education Providers™<br class=""><a href="tel:970.672.4342" value="+19706724342" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank" class="">970.672.4342</a></div><br class=""> </div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>

<br class=""><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jun 1, 2017 at 10:12 AM, Ron Young <span dir="ltr" class=""><<a href="mailto:solareagle@solareagle.com" target="_blank" class="">solareagle@solareagle.com</a>></span> wrote:<br class=""><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Hi Wrenches, I have a client that wants to light up trees in his yard using solar packages in each tree. Haven’t seen this except for novelty lights. This client wants something sturdy & long lasting. Has anyone done this or have suggestions other than parting together the individual components? Thanks!<br class="">

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