Re: [RE-wrenches] AC Coupling

2011-09-03 Thread Kent Osterberg
Brian, Is this the drawing? Magnum ac coupled diagram from Google cache. Kent Osterberg Blue Mountain Solar Allan Sindelar wrote: Brian, Good job of laying it out. Now here's the part I'm missing. If as you say the grid-tied inverter(s), either micro or string, are connected to

Re: [RE-wrenches] unique battery bank design question

2011-09-03 Thread R Ray Walters
Systems I tried years ago with Vanner equalizers, still ended up being unequal. I pulled them all years ago. It seems to be about as much a problem as not balancing your battery cables so each battery string has the same wire resistance, I know that you couldn't imagine a few amps on 12 of 2/0

Re: [RE-wrenches] AC Coupling

2011-09-03 Thread R Ray Walters
Hi Jay; I agree, for long outages, a generator is the way to go. It just doesn't make sense to have 5 days of lead acid battery sitting there for years waiting to be used once or twice in an epic ice storm. On the other hand, many places have very unreliable grid power with short outages every

Re: [RE-wrenches] unique battery bank design question

2011-09-03 Thread Darryl Thayer
I have had one experiance with equalizers, the batteries be came very unequal.  (over time of course) From: R Ray Walters r...@solarray.com To: RE-wrenches re-wrenches@lists.re-wrenches.org Sent: Saturday, September 3, 2011 5:55 PM Subject: Re: [RE-wrenches] unique battery bank design question

Re: [RE-wrenches] unique battery bank design question

2011-09-03 Thread boB Gudgel
On 9/3/2011 7:57 PM, Darryl Thayer wrote: I have had one experiance with equalizers, the batteries be came very unequal. (over time of course) *From:* R Ray Walters r...@solarray.com *To:* RE-wrenches re-wrenches@lists.re-wrenches.org *Sent:* Saturday, September 3, 2011 5:55 PM *Subject:* Re: