Re: [RE-wrenches] Oddball wire request

2013-10-12 Thread Allan Sindelar
Wrenches, What a delight to receive such a wealth of oddball solutions to my oddball request! Thank you to all who replied and all who responded. The envelope, please... And the winner is... (muffled drumroll) ... Bill Battagin! (loud

Re: [RE-wrenches] Oddball wire request

2013-10-12 Thread Allan Sindelar
Wrenches, What a delight to receive such a wealth of oddball solutions to my oddball request! Thank you to all who replied and all who responded. The envelope, please... And the winner is... (muffled drumroll) ... Bill Battagin! (loud

Re: [RE-wrenches] Oddball wire request

2013-10-10 Thread penobscotsolar
Hi Allan, Is it possible to use 1/2 carflex connectors and nm carflex from panel to panel? You could then use THWN anywhere you wanted. This is what we used to do with all our systems back in the day Daryl html head meta http-equiv=content-type content=text/html;

Re: [RE-wrenches] Oddball wire request

2013-10-10 Thread Richard L Ratico
Thinking out loud here: Can you, 1) Use short pieces of the TC for the box entry /exit. Butt crimp, solder, insulate / heat shrink USE-2 or PV wire to the emerging TC tails. Or, 2) Can you modify the locknuts on the new 3/8 CGB by grinding or cutting to reduce their diameter? Or, 3) Ditch the

Re: [RE-wrenches] Oddball wire request

2013-10-10 Thread James Jefferson Jarvis
Instead of un-obtanium wire, can you glue a modern j-box onto the module, over the top of the old j-box? For example: http://www.digikey.com/product-detail/en/1986175-3/A99648-ND/1980953 Or even just an outdoor rated plastic box that has the back cut out? Dow Corning 748 Noncorrosive Silicone

Re: [RE-wrenches] Oddball wire request

2013-10-10 Thread frenergy
Yes, the 14 gauge I found was USE-2. Bill - Original Message - From: Allan Sindelar To: RE-wrenches Sent: Wednesday, October 09, 2013 10:48 PM Subject: [RE-wrenches] Oddball wire request Wrenches, I do a fair amount of work on ancient systems, just because there's been

Re: [RE-wrenches] Oddball wire request

2013-10-10 Thread Ray Walters
I just ran into this on a new Dasol 12 v module. I ended up wiring with USE but couldn't do the series connections. I had to bring each module wire into a J Box. I'm now using Kyocera, as that was a PITA. Since your project is low amperage, have you considered smaller USE like 12 or 14

[RE-wrenches] Oddball wire request

2013-10-09 Thread Allan Sindelar
Wrenches, I do a fair amount of work on ancient systems, just because there's been off grid here for decades. I'm rewiring several old arrays for my next door (meaning 1/4 mile away) neighbor. The particular array has six 53W Solec modules wired as three two-module 24V