HI Marco,
I've been told by EE's that 130 f is really no problem.
Think of the computer under the hood of your car: serious vibrations,
shocks, way hotter than 130f and they really hardly fail.
The big deal with these type of individual inverters/control units is
that they will show who really accurately labels their solar modules
and who doesn't.
No more hiding.
very exciting.,
jay
peltz power
On Nov 7, 2009, at 8:32 AM, Marco Mangelsdorf wrote:
Can anyone think of a more brutal environment for a piece of
electronic equipment than under a solar module which day in and day
out experiences the elements and temperatures of 130+ plus F?
Despite any so-called accelerated life-cycle testing and estimated
mean time to failure probabilities, nothing takes the place of
actual time cooking under solar arrays.
Having seen my fair share of controller and inverter manufacturers
come and go out of business in 30+ years in the RE field, I’ll be
watching with great interest the great Enphase experiment unfold.
And ever heard of the word “recall”? Swapping a central inverter or
two is one thing. Imagine doing it with the X number of
microinverters you installed six months or two years ago…..
But hey, other than my Eeyore-sounding words above, aren’t Enphase
inverters so cool with all that they can do?
marco in Hawaii
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