At my house(before I got hip to using bigger gutters) I furred out the wall with 2x4s and 1/2" plywood and used a 6" for my AIO...worked nicely.
On Fri, Jul 25, 2025, 3:43 PM Zeke Yewdall via RE-wrenches < [email protected]> wrote: > I noticed this on a SolArk job -- I think I bought out all of NW montana > of 1" offset nipples to get 3 of them mounted to an 8" gutter once. > > On the Midnite AIO's a 10" gutter is perfect to not need any offsets. But > you can mount smaller gutters on various levels of unistrut to space them > off the wall. An 8" gutter on standard unistrut works fairly well, and I > think you could space a 6" off with two or three levels of unistrut to get > it to line up well. Of course then the gutter is too far from the wall to > easily mount other equipment on top of it, and it can be harder to do rear > entries into the gutter from the wall. That's where the 10" gutter is > nicer, because it can catch the front of the inverter, as well as an AC > panel or such mounted off to the side of the inverter, and catch pass > throughs into the back of it. I'm not sure about the SolArk and Fortress, > but I imagine they'd be pretty similar. > > Zeke > > >> Message: 1 >> Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2025 15:19:29 -0700 >> From: William Miller <[email protected]> >> To: RE-wrenches <[email protected]> >> Subject: [RE-wrenches] Knockouts far from the backplane. >> Message-ID: <[email protected]> >> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" >> >> Friends: >> >> >> >> I have noticed increasingly that inverters I have been using (Soul-Arc and >> Fortress Envy) have knockouts that are far in front of the backplane on >> which the inverter would be mounted. Connecting conduit from these >> inverters into standard gutters, load centers and pull boxes is quite a >> hassle: Offsets can eat up a lot of vertical space. Pulling elbows (LBs) >> don?t really work in this situation. >> >> >> >> See diagram below: >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> One solutIon is to stack pull boxes or gutters, althouigh this eats up >> vertical space and increases the labor and parts count: >> >> >> >> How are the rest of you handling this backplane problem? >> >> >> >> Thanks in advance. >> >> >> >> William Miller >> >> >> >> Miller Solar >> >> 17395 Oak Road, Atascadero, CA 93422 >> >> 805-438-5600 >> >> www.millersolar.com >> >> CA Lic. 773985 >> -------------- next part -------------- >> An HTML attachment was scrubbed... >> URL: < >> http://lists.re-wrenches.org/pipermail/re-wrenches-re-wrenches.org/attachments/20250725/5dd8985c/attachment.htm >> > >> -------------- next part -------------- >> A non-text attachment was scrubbed... >> Name: image002.jpg >> Type: image/jpeg >> Size: 164770 bytes >> Desc: not available >> URL: < >> http://lists.re-wrenches.org/pipermail/re-wrenches-re-wrenches.org/attachments/20250725/5dd8985c/attachment.jpg >> > >> -------------- next part -------------- >> A non-text attachment was scrubbed... >> Name: image006.jpg >> Type: image/jpeg >> Size: 167762 bytes >> Desc: not available >> URL: < >> http://lists.re-wrenches.org/pipermail/re-wrenches-re-wrenches.org/attachments/20250725/5dd8985c/attachment-0001.jpg >> > >> >> ------------------------------ >> >> Subject: Digest Footer >> >> _______________________________________________ >> List sponsored by Redwood Alliance >> >> Pay optional member dues here: http://re-wrenches.org >> >> List Address: [email protected] >> >> Change listserver email address & settings: >> http://lists.re-wrenches.org/options.cgi/re-wrenches-re-wrenches.org >> >> There are two list archives for searching. When one doesn't work, try the >> other: >> https://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ >> http://lists.re-wrenches.org/pipermail/re-wrenches-re-wrenches.org >> >> List rules & etiquette: >> http://www.re-wrenches.org/etiquette.htm >> >> Check out or update participant bios: >> http://www.members.re-wrenches.org >> >> >> >> ------------------------------ >> >> End of RE-wrenches Digest, Vol 18, Issue 283 >> ******************************************** >> > > > -- > Zeke Yewdall > PV Engineer > NABCEP #031508-89 > [email protected] > 303-523-3592 > _______________________________________________ > List sponsored by Redwood Alliance > > Pay optional member dues here: http://re-wrenches.org > > List Address: [email protected] > > Change listserver email address & settings: > http://lists.re-wrenches.org/options.cgi/re-wrenches-re-wrenches.org > > There are two list archives for searching. When one doesn't work, try the > other: > https://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > http://lists.re-wrenches.org/pipermail/re-wrenches-re-wrenches.org > > List rules & etiquette: > http://www.re-wrenches.org/etiquette.htm > > Check out or update participant bios: > http://www.members.re-wrenches.org > >
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