Re: [RE-wrenches] GSLC work-arounds

2016-10-11 Thread Ray Walters
Nice work William, thanks for posting all this info. That issue with mounting the Mate 3 is just ridiculous, I totally agree they need to make an adapter to interface with regular boxes. They can sell it separately. In the 90s it was understood we had to fab our own solutions, but at this p

Re: [RE-wrenches] GSLC work-arounds

2016-10-11 Thread Chris Mason
I forwarded your page to the Outback engineering team responsible for the Radian, hopefully your detailed analysis will give them some food for thought. I tend to agree with you, I would always use an external AC panel. On Tue, Oct 11, 2016 at 5:07 PM, William Miller wrote: > Friends: > > > > We

Re: [RE-wrenches] Enphase Connector Issue

2016-10-11 Thread Jay
They are not compatible nor UL listed. I can dig up the official MC paper if you need Jay Peltz power. Sent from my iPhone > On Oct 11, 2016, at 11:35 AM, Abe Powell wrote: > > Hello Wrenches, > > It has come to our attention that enphase is shipping micro-inverters labeled > "LL-2" (MC

[RE-wrenches] GSLC work-arounds

2016-10-11 Thread William Miller
Friends: We resolved our web authoring problem and threw together a little page to illustrate some of the issues we have with the GSLC. If anyone is interested, direct your browser to: http://www.millersolar.com/MillerSolar/case_studies/GSLC/GSLC.html I hope the time and effort I put into

[RE-wrenches] Enphase Connector Issue

2016-10-11 Thread Abe Powell
Hello Wrenches, It has come to our attention that enphase is shipping micro-inverters labeled "LL-2" (MC4 CONNECTOR) that actually come with Amphenol Connectors. We have received a number of boxes like this. Enphase says the connectors are compatible MC4 to Amphenol We can't find a document sh

Re: [RE-wrenches] PV Recombiner

2016-10-11 Thread William Miller
Jay: I wouldn’t go so far as to say the GSLC is a piece of junk. It does have some flaws, however, particularly the breaker wiring. I informed Outback of the shortcomings soon after it came out but no improvements have been made. We work around the breaker problem with a few procedures:

Re: [RE-wrenches] PV Recombiner

2016-10-11 Thread William Miller
Jason: I thought of this but I can find no DIN rail mounted breakers that perform a GFDI function and are rated for 60 or 80 amps continuous. Do you know of any? Midnite has a 63 amp unit, but this won’t work for FM80 controllers, and if it is not rated for continuous duty, it won’t work for