Allan, there are 4 modules pictured in the ³before² photo, not 8. The after
photo show the ³good² modules, the ones that did not burn. This suggests
there are 4 module each on two separate roof faces. Please have another look
at the before picture and count the frames. In the before picture each 250 W
mystery module is supported at 4 corners only. They are some sort of large
format modules. Nothing I can find online matches these characteristics,
especially the superstrate material.
Please re-read the homeowner¹s account in these various postings as well.
Sundiego indicates that the module superstrate is not glass, but some other
material. Apparently it is a material that melts when exposed to flame. It
sure isn¹t glass, that¹s pretty clear by the photos and the written account.
This does not look like an elaborate hoax to me. It does look, as BB points
out, like a potential crime scene, a fraud at the very least. Something was
misrepresented to this customer. It¹s pretty apparent that these modules are
not listed and identified for the application. The installation isn¹t
vaguely appropriate. It¹s just dumb luckliterallythat the house didn¹t
burn down.
Clearly the narrator is unreliable, but I don¹t think it is malicious, just
ignorance. The dude¹s a ³solar newbie² and his house caught on fire. That¹s
what it looks like to me.
David
On 2/11/09 6:57 PM, Allan Sindelar al...@positiveenergysolar.com wrote:
I guess I'm not the only one who's suspicious of this whole story. This came
to me off list. Some of the post here doesn't jive - it's pretty clear there's
no glass, and the blurry corner doesn't look it to me.
-Original Message-
From:
I may be very wrong here and I don¹t mean to impugn anyone¹s integrity but
don¹t forget that in this era of digital animation movies you can¹t always
believe what you see in photo either. (I'm sure no one here has ever
Photoshopped a photo to make it more presentable looking.) I couldn't help
but notice that the bottom right corner of the photo was surprisingly blurry
and indistinct. It is difficult to distinguish one thing from the next, when
just a few feet away but out of the range of detail in the photo, things
seemed to be much clearer. I¹ve never seen a photo look like that in
reality. It¹s as if the roof and array have mysteriously melted together.
Also, I have never seen tempered glass melt in a low temperature fire. If
it were a high temperature fire the roof would not have survived. I think
that a great deal of caution is warranted especially considering the lack of
detail that the poster is giving about the panels, location,
installer/supplier, existence of another array etc.
--- On Wed, 2/11/09, Allan Sindelar al...@positiveenergysolar.com wrote:
One detail I haven't heard mentioned yet and am curious about - the photo of
the fire damage appears to show the corner of another west(?)-facing array. I
find it curious that the system owner described a 2 kW system made up of
eight 250W(!) modules, which are clearly visible in the topmost system photo.
There's just a whole lot that doesn't jive in this whole story. Scary to me .
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