Re: [RE-wrenches] Inverter Failure Due to Generator Backfeed (?)

2016-01-30 Thread Mac Lewis
Hi Jason, I really don't think the generator is at fault. I think of these grid tied inverters as current sources, not voltage sources. If they don't "like" the voltage at their AC input terminals, its their job to disconnect from that voltage source and reconnect when the voltage is within

Re: [RE-wrenches] DC Fuses on TL Inverters

2016-01-30 Thread Mike Kocsmiersky
I believe that when you have a TL inverter that has two channels you may have up to two strings, unfused, going into each channel. Thus leaving you with four strings of modules with no fusing. Mike Kocsmiersky Principal Phone: 413 883-3144 Spirit Solar www.SpiritSolar.net

Re: [RE-wrenches] Inverter Failure Due to Generator Backfeed (?)

2016-01-30 Thread Jason Szumlanski
Mac, That's what I was thinking, too. The inverters should be resilient to AC input variations. I learned something else... the inverters had lightning arrestors installed and connected to DC inputs that still had dummy fuses in them. Later when they were discovered by someone else totally fried

Re: [RE-wrenches] 600V charge controller questions

2016-01-30 Thread jay
HI Allan, I’ll let you do the AC or DC couple choice. However my suggestion if you do DC couple is to go Schneider for all. Then you will have an integrated DC couple package. Metering and control, they have new battery meter and full online capability. And one of the things I don’t like

[RE-wrenches] 600V charge controller questions

2016-01-30 Thread Allan Sindelar
Wrenches, I am serving as a consultant for a homeowner with an array of solar equipment that doesn't do what he wants, a common story. He wants independence in the event of an extended utility outage. To cut to the chase: He has one array of 3,100 watts feeding

Re: [RE-wrenches] fusing requirement for 4 strings run to a Inverter with 2 MPPT's

2016-01-30 Thread Bradley Bassett
That document refers to 2008 NEC 690.9 code which has the exemption that is used for grounded inverters. Section 690.35 for ungrounded systems just refers back to 690.9 for over-current protection. So I do not see any indication that two strings on an ungrounded inverter could not have the same