[RE-wrenches] Housekeeping

2013-03-11 Thread Michael Welch
Hi gang. Please send any response or comments to me OFF LIST.

Please read carefully.

1. Based on member feedback (or lack thereof), I have increased the allowed 
message size to 1 MB. That does not mean you should start peppering everyone's 
hard disks with larger files. Every time you send a file, literally hundreds of 
members receive it. 

So please be judicious about what you send -- that said, the bandwidth is there 
if you need it.

Oh yeah, also continue to edit out extraneous quoting and footers from replies 
before sending. It just makes things cleaner.

2. A reminder that the default for our list server is that replying to a 
message goes to everyone on the list. In those cases where your reply is 
appropriate to send only to the person you are replying to, you need to grab 
their email address and replace the list address in the To: field.

3. Several Wrenches have been phished lately, so I offer this word of caution. 
If you receive an email or some other communication that suggests you need to 
log in to your email account and it offers a link to do so, DO NOT DO IT. 
Chances are it is a link not to your email host, but to a fake login page, for 
somebody who will then harvest your email address and password, and use it to 
send spam. 

Be SURE that you are on your email host's (like Yahoo, Google Mail, AOL, etc.) 
legitimate web site before using your password. If you have any doubts, feel 
free to ask me for help.

Here is an example of what you might see, when being phished. Note that there 
might just be text like "Please log in now" and a graphic like your email 
host's, but the code underneath it is where the deviousness comes in. If you 
cannot see the underlying code in your email program, if you click it it will 
be visible in the URL field of the browser window that opens.

Examples:
Real Yahoo email login (there can be variations of this):
http://mail.yahoo.com

Fake Yahoo email login example:
http://mail.yahoo.com.urscrewed.ru

If you ever think you may have been phished, immediately go to your real email 
login and change your password. 

For more info about phishing:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phishing

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Re: [RE-wrenches] Temperature sensor compatibility for inverters, charge controllers

2013-03-11 Thread jay peltz
HI Larry,

Been wanting to know that myself.

I know that outback and midnight are compatible.

jay

peltz power


On Mar 11, 2013, at 3:48 PM, Larry Crutcher, Starlight Solar Power Systems 
wrote:

> Battery Wrenches, 
> 
> There are a myriad of battery temperature sensors for inverter/chargers and 
> charge controllers. Does anyone know of compatibility between sensors? For 
> example, I need some of the old Heart (then Xantrex, then Schneider) 
> 20-0022-00 temperature sensors but they are now special order, weeks of 
> waiting with drop ship fees. 
> 
> 1. Will anything else work? 
> 2. Does anyone have a part #/specification for the sensor device?
> 
> Thank you,
> 
> Larry Crutcher
> Starlight Solar Power Systems
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
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[RE-wrenches] Temperature sensor compatibility for inverters, charge controllers

2013-03-11 Thread Larry Crutcher, Starlight Solar Power Systems
Battery Wrenches, 

There are a myriad of battery temperature sensors for inverter/chargers and 
charge controllers. Does anyone know of compatibility between sensors? For 
example, I need some of the old Heart (then Xantrex, then Schneider) 20-0022-00 
temperature sensors but they are now special order, weeks of waiting with drop 
ship fees. 

1. Will anything else work? 
2. Does anyone have a part #/specification for the sensor device?

Thank you,

Larry Crutcher
Starlight Solar Power Systems






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