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--></style></head><body lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple"><div class="WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">Friends:</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif""> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">Thanks for the many replies. Here is what I have learned, paired with the questions.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif""> </span></p><p class="MsoListParagraph" style="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif""><span style="mso-list:Ignore">1.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">Is it normal for the display screens on the Sunny Islands to go blank after shutting off due to low battery voltage<span style="color:#0070c0">? <i>Apparently this is a feature, not a bug--the display is supposed to go blank. There is a fault-clearing procedure that requires you remove all input power for 15 minutes and it worked here. The system was responding as designed--it was not \u201cbricked\u201d.</i></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif""> </span></p><p class="MsoListParagraph" style="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif""><span style="mso-list:Ignore">2.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">Is there an up-to-date option for remote monitoring that will send an email if certain error conditions occur? <i><span style="color:#0070c0">No one is telling me any new SMA remote access system is much different from the old system of port-forwarding the web-box and then going blind trying to navigate the interface. There is a remote-alert for some new SMA inverters, but not Sunny Island, which needs it the most. I don\u2019t think SMA can hold a candle to OpticsRE in this area. This alone is a deal-killer for me spec\u2019ing Sunny Island in the future.</span></i></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif""> </span></p><p class="MsoListParagraph" style="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif""><span style="mso-list:Ignore">3.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">What would you do with a 6k AH battery bank with a voltage too low to start a battery inverter or solar charge controller? <i><span style="color:#0070c0">My first reaction was the same as those that suggested AC-coupled off-grid architecture is fundamentally flawed due to this predicament. In thinking about it further, the same is actually true for DC coupled systems: if battery voltage gets low enough, many PV charge controllers are not able to startup and charge a battery bank. There is a warehouse-style, 48 volt forklift charger next door I could have for the asking, but it was not needed for this outage and I doubt it will be needed in the future.</span></i></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif""> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">Thanks again. The wrenches list rocks!</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif""> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">William Miller</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Miller Solar</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">17395 Oak Road, Atascadero, CA 93422</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">805-438-5600</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><a href="http://www.millersolar.com/">www.millersolar.com</a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">CA Lic. 773985</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p></div></body></html>