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<p>John,</p>
<p> Just curious if you had SPDs (like Midnites) in
either system? AC side, DC side</p>
<p>Bill<br>
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<pre class="moz-signature" cols="72">Feather River Solar Electric
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<div dir="ltr">Time will tell where the failure modes are. I
still don't like all the eggs in one basket. Do you have to send
the units back for repair? Had enough of that with Trace SW
series inverters..
<div>For off grid, I'll stick to the tried and true for now.
For Grid tie it is just a financial hit. For off-grid power
loss it is more important to deal with right away.. </div>
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<div>I am going to try a Fortress Envy at my off grid home but
will keep my Outback field repairable VFXR wired in just in
case. I had a massive lightning strike between my house and a
guest cabin 1/4 mile away and I lost power from my Fortress
Eflex battery at the cabin and my Outback inverter at my
house. I replaced the control board on my inverter ( I always
keep one in reserve as it is usually the only board failure
due to lightning) and was back on line in 1/2 hour and
Fortress rushed me a new BMS board for the E-flex and a day
later and a half hour swap had it back in service, Now it is
a different story with 2 Simpliphi batteries I have from a
customer that failed. I have to ship them to California to
have them evaluated to see if we had damaged them by misuse.
Lots of expense and time lost.</div>
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<div dir="auto">Wow, are we in the golden age of
inverter/chargers? If it had 200-a.p pass thru it would
be near perfect.</div>
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<div dir="auto">Begs the question: are stand alone charge
controllers becoming a historical artifact?</div>
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<div dir="auto">Howard "Scot" Arey</div>
<div dir="auto">Owner, Solar CenTex</div>
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