[RE-wrenches] Racks.

I can't find the link to Jeff randles new rack company? Can someone help me out Thx Jay Peltz power. Sent from my iPhone > On Jan 10, 2017, at 8:31 PM, Ray Walters wrote: > > Hi William; > > Your link had a glitch, I think this should be it? > http://www.millersolar.com/MillerSolar/case_

Re: [RE-wrenches] Solar World Wind Damage

Hi William; Your link had a glitch, I think this should be it? http://www.millersolar.com/MillerSolar/case_studies/Wind_damage/_wind_damage.html We have DP&W's high wind option which bumped the pole size from 4" to 6" along with heavier hardware throughout. I haven't been to the site yet, bu

Re: [RE-wrenches] Solar World Wind Damage

Ray: I can't say I have a solution to your problem, but I can share some photos of two similar failures in case you can glean any information from them. See: http://www.millersolar.com/MillerSolar/case_studies/Wind_damage/_wind_dama ge.html The first failure is a Zomeworks. On the same exact spo

Re: [RE-wrenches] Solar World Wind Damage

Ray We use a lot of SW, lost our first system this last year on a ballasted roof mount during a hurricane. Good Solar World contact below, if he is unable to help he should be able to point you in the right direction. Patience. Mark Magallanes Account Development Representative Solar Wor

Re: [RE-wrenches] Solar World Wind Damage

Hi Daryl; I wonder if the DP&W rack is allowing some bending or torqueing of the module frame, that over time with thin aluminum causes metal fatigue, cracking, and finally total failure. Funny both of our isolated failures involved the same rack. Also, I did more sluething and these modu

Re: [RE-wrenches] Solar World Wind Damage

Hi Ray, I don't have much advice, but I can tell you that we have a couple of ground mounted arrays at a local college (along the ocean) on the same DPW high wind rated racks. The college chose to buy Chinese modules from a competitor instead of my recommendation and one of the modules, after ab

[RE-wrenches] Solar World Wind Damage

Greetings All; I just had the dreaded call from one of my higher profile commercial clients: a remote radio repeater station had modules ripped off the frame by high winds. Two SW285s were damaged. The wind was strong enough to rip right through the aluminum side rails. We had used the prop