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    <p>AC coupled off grid?  Sounds like a good time to go DC coupled.<br>
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    <pre class="moz-signature" cols="72">Ray Walters
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    <div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 1/9/22 3:31 PM, Carl Adams wrote:<br>
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        <div>Mac,
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          <div dir="auto">SMA tech support told me this usually
            indicates a failing transformer so as Marco suggests, the
            patient does not have long to live.  I've seen a couple of
            these at 10+ years of service on the inverter.</div>
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          <div dir="auto">Was kind of regards</div>
          <div dir="auto">Carl Adams</div>
          <div dir="auto">SunRock Solar</div>
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            <div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, Jan 9, 2022, 12:50
              PM Mac Lewis &lt;<a href="mailto:maclewis1@gmail.com"
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              <div dir="ltr">Hello Wrenches,
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                <div>I've got a customer that has an issue with their
                  ~10 yr old SB8000US connected to a quad stack of Sunny
                  Island system that's off-grid.</div>
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                <div>It looks like it's on and off, trying to make power
                  but seems to think there is a problem on the AC side. 
                  Do you have any advice as to what may be going on? 
                  Anything that I can do that may not require
                  replacement?  Very tough communicating to SMA while on
                  site and of course, this always happens on Friday
                  night.</div>
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                <div>Thanks!<br clear="all">
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                    Mac Lewis<br>
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                                    face="'times new roman', serif">"Yo
                                    solo sé que no sé nada." </font><span
style="font-weight:700;color:rgb(104,104,104)"><font face="'times new
                                      roman', serif">-Sócrates</font></span></span></span></font></p>
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