<div dir="auto">Hi Dana,</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">If the battery is in closed loop with the inverter and the battery is cold, it might be limiting charge due to cold temps. </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Best,</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Chris </div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, Dec 4, 2022 at 8:21 AM Dana Orzel via RE-wrenches <<a href="mailto:re-wrenches@lists.re-wrenches.org">re-wrenches@lists.re-wrenches.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><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" style="word-wrap:break-word"><div class="m_4895812873261851487WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif">Hey Now All Wise ones!<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif">An of gird client emailed yesterday that his Solark had been accepting only 350 watts of a 4KW input from the array. The modules are Q-cell 325 watt 2 strings of 7 modules.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif">Sunrise, full sun, no clouds so no edge of cloud effect, negative temps @ -6˚F, he waited all day with no improvement or change in the charge rate consistent 350watts input & then same thing next morning. Negative temps & full sun & 350watts solar input.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif">He turned the Solark off for 10 minutes & then turned it back on & 4KW charge input returned. The Solark did not turn off or deliver any alarm or warning.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif">My initial thought was over-voltage spike, we designed for a -25˚F scenario & 110 PSF snow load. Beefy! <u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif">I did not ask if it was windy additionally. Could this contribute to a colder array temp? I have always been of the impression that wind chill did not affect metal or glass that it has to do with moisture being driven off.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif">Thoughts & suggestions?<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><div style="border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.5pt;padding:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in"><p class="MsoNormal" style="border:none;padding:0in"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></p></div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:#002060"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif">Dana Orzel Great Solar Works, Inc. <u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif">C - 208.721.7003 <a href="mailto:dana@solarwork.com" target="_blank">dana@solarwork.com</a><u></u><u></u></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif">Idaho Contractor - # 028765 Idaho PV # 028374<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif"><a href="http://www.greatsolarworks.com/" target="_blank">www.greatsolarworks.com</a> <a href="http://www.solarwor.com" target="_blank">www.solarwor.com</a> <u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif">"Responsible Technologies for Responsible People since 1988" </span></u><u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif"><u></u><u></u></span></u></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><b><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:Webdings;color:green"><u></u> <u></u></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><b><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:Webdings;color:green">P</span></b><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:navy"> </span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:green">Please consider the environment before printing this email.</span><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black"><u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p></div></div>_______________________________________________<br>
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</blockquote></div></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div>Chris Sparadeo</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>C_802-369-4458</div><div>H_802-728-3059</div><div></div></div></div></div></div></div>