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<font size=3>Colleagues:<br><br>
Below is from a local building official. This is very preliminary
so take it as such:<br><br>
<br>
William Miller<br><br>
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<i>From what I've been told the fire was located in one of<br>
the combiner boxes. It started as they were commissioning the system.
We<br>
had completed our final inspection and their electrical contractor had
done<br>
an insulation resistance test on all conductors. No modules were
involved.<br>
Ground faults do not appear to be the cause of the fire but there is
a<br>
possibility of miss marked and/or installed positive/negative
output<br>
conductors. The system design has three 12 string combiners per
pull box.<br>
There are approximately 2,500 modules total for the 650 kW system.
The<br>
engineering team at Bright Power is currently investigating the cause
of<br>
the fire. I'll let you know what they discover.<br><br>
<br><br>
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</i>At 05:17 PM 11/14/2010, you wrote:<br>
<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite>I have searched the net and cannot
find any photos of this fire damage, or any report that explains the
damamge in detail. What about the installer? Have they
stepped up to investigate, or perhaps the fire marshall? When
these things happen everybody heads to their corners, but we all would
benefit from good information about these kinds of "what not to
do".<br>
<br>
Anybody on the list near there and might have more iinfo?<br>
<br>
<br>
Jeff Yago<br><br>
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