<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Thanks for the clarification. <div><br></div><div>FWIW: Flat topping is exactly what occurs. Inverter limiting clips the inverter output power curve (not the voltage or current wave forms). The chart below has one data point for every hour of the year. The clipped/flat-top area is the result of the 225 kW inverter limiting the power output of a 385 kW array: <br><div><br></div><div><br><div><img id="f8fb8cd8-d25e-4e31-9e6b-39bd842364de" height="465" width="779" apple-width="yes" apple-height="yes" src="cid:84A1389A-0A1D-4D2F-BBB1-8EDEE1AAA5ED"></div><div><br><div><div>On Mar 22, 2013, at 1:07 AM, boB wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite">
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 3/21/2013 9:59 PM, Exeltech wrote:<br>
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I'm probably a lone voice on this .. and not intending to
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No, two lonely voices, Dan.<br>
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I associate clipping with audio waveforms which stops<br>
the negative or positive voltage peaks flat. Also called<br>
flat-topping.<br>
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Limiting is like turning down the volume. The waveform<br>
stays the same and does not distort as it would if it<br>
were being flat topped (and flat bottomed)<br>
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Thanks !<br>
boB<br>
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Could we call power limiting what it is .. "limiting", and
not "clipping"?<br>
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Clipping implies distortion, which isn't the case here.
Limiting is just that.<br>
The inverter output is limited to some maximum value --
not "clipped".<br>
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The output power curve flattens when integrated over time,
but this still isn't<br>
distortion in the waveform. It's simply a point in the
output where the derivative<br>
is zero. Not increasing, not decreasing. Just .. zero.
No additional increase<br>
in the output for an increase in available energy at the
input. Think "governor"<br>
on an engine....<br>
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Thanks.<br>
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Dan Lepinski, Sr. Engineer<br>
Exeltech / Exeltech Solar Products<br>
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Subject: Re: [RE-wrenches] P1 micro performance<br>
To: "RE-wrenches"
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Date: Thursday, March 21, 2013, 11:37 PM<br>
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<div>Thanks for sharing the screen capture, Marco.</div>
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<div>Interesting issues to think about here. This is
actually prime clipping season in many places (not
sure about Hawaii) due to the cool weather. While
there are more sun-hours in the summer, the cell
temperatures are often high enough that you won't
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<div>While I'm not running performance models for
work, the people who do are routinely increasing
dc-to-ac ratios, often as high as 1.4-to-1. Having
said that, most inverters aren't installed on a
roof. (Not yet anyway.) </div>
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<div>I'd probably lean to a more conservative sizing
ratio for micros. While I can imagine some
scenarios where I'd be comfortable with a 215 W
micro on a 265 W modulelike a flat roof install
in Vermont, which reportedly doesn't see 1,000
W/m^2 very oftenI wouldn't try that here in
Texas.</div>
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