Re: [RE-wrenches] Battery EQ question, Xantrex XW system (Dan Fink)

2013-03-04 Thread Hilton Dier III
Dan, What Alan said. The most important client is the one you turn away. The fact that the previous installer fled and that the client refuses to use a generator makes an alarm go ah-OOO-gah! ah-OOO-gah! in the back of my head. I just walked away from a client after five years of repairing

Re: [RE-wrenches] Battery EQ question, Xantrex XW system (Dan Fink)

2013-03-04 Thread Dan Fink
Thanks for the advice Hilton, and everyone else. On the bright side, recently got a phone call from a client from way back in the day, barely remembered his name, we did an install there 14 years ago and never heard from him since, says his batteries are shot. I figured he had sold the place and

Re: [RE-wrenches] Battery EQ question, Xantrex XW system

2013-03-04 Thread Kevin Pegg
Message- From: re-wrenches-boun...@lists.re-wrenches.org [mailto:re-wrenches-boun...@lists.re-wrenches.org]On Behalf Of Dan Fink Sent: March 3, 2013 6:10 PM To: RE-wrenches Subject: [RE-wrenches] Battery EQ question, Xantrex XW system Esteemed Wrenches; We recently inherited a problem off

[RE-wrenches] Battery EQ question, Xantrex XW system

2013-03-03 Thread Dan Fink
Esteemed Wrenches; We recently inherited a problem off-grid system from another local Wrench. We didn't steal, he fled and said have fun. It's all Xantrex, and impeccably installed, but we do not install Xantrex and are just learning the menus and such. This system gets hit pretty hard every

Re: [RE-wrenches] Battery EQ question, Xantrex XW system

2013-03-03 Thread Allan Sindelar
Dan, Like many baby boomers, I'm a child of an alcoholic parent, and thus have the super-responsible characteristic that often develops as a result. I open with this because I sense from your post that we may share this history in common. You sound as though you

Re: [RE-wrenches] Battery EQ question, Xantrex XW system

2013-03-03 Thread Dan Fink
Thanks, Allan! Yes, you are correct. Not our problem. But the system is so gorgeous and so close to actually working rightarrrgh. Perhaps a pleasant periodic visit with a Honda 2000ifor EQ, tea, cookies and a bill for hourly time and travel (it's not far away) might really be the best way