Nick,

Could you post a diagram showing when a male whip is useful?  I'm having a really hard time envisioning a need for one.

Kent Osterberg
Blue Mountain Solar, Inc.


Nick Soleil wrote:
William:
    Your diagram is one way to do it, in fact, I always divide my circuits into 2 sub-circuits, to minimize voltage drop on the Enphase wiring, and then parallel the sub-circuits at the j-box.  However, there is a value to having a male cable.   They can simplify some installations, such as the situation that Eric described.  As mentioned before, the extension cable can be cut, and the other end is used as a standard whip.
Nick Soleil
Project Manager
Advanced Alternative Energy Solutions, LLC
PO Box 657
Petaluma, CA 94953
Cell: 707-321-2937
Office: 707-789-9537
Fax: 707-769-9037



From: William Miller <will...@millersolar.com>
To: RE-wrenches <re-wrenches@lists.re-wrenches.org>
Sent: Thu, January 20, 2011 6:22:33 PM
Subject: Re: [RE-wrenches] EnPhase male whips

Eric:

You connect the factory provided termination kit to the Enphase array on each roof.  All of the Enphase inverters on one array do not need to be in a daisy configuration.

I have attached a drawing hat should illustrate


William Miller
805-440-5161 Cell



At 11:06 AM 1/20/2011, you wrote:

I know its a funny title but....why doesn't EnPhase make whips with male connectors? We are having trouble laying out a system with multiple sub arrays. We need to cable to sub arrays that are on different roof planes in order to make up our circuits. From 5 micros on roof one, into attic, out of SolaDeck on roof two, grab 3 more micros, back into SolaDeck, into attic for home run. The whip from the SolDeck to the last 3 micros needs to be male... any suggestions? EnPhase does not want us to cut an extension that has connectors on both ends...

Thanks,
Eric Thomas
Solar Epiphany
Seattle

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William Miller
Miller Solar
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