Re: [RE-wrenches] REC Solar melt-down

2009-07-01 Thread Wind-sun.com
, June 30, 2009 3:40 PM Subject: [RE-wrenches] REC Solar melt-down Anyone else out there horrified by this kind of news from REC Solar in Norway? WTF?! marco REC to Recall All of Its Solar Panels From 2008 Thursday, 18 June 2009 13:43 Greentech Media Renewable

Re: [RE-wrenches] REC Solar melt-down

2009-07-01 Thread Bill Brooks
-wrenches-boun...@lists.re-wrenches.org] On Behalf Of Wind-sun.com Sent: Wednesday, July 01, 2009 12:59 AM To: RE-wrenches Subject: Re: [RE-wrenches] REC Solar melt-down Old news, and horrified is a bit over the top. Try doing a search for bp solar panel fires for example (but note that all the BP

Re: [RE-wrenches] REC Solar melt-down

2009-07-01 Thread Joel Davidson
I don't understand. All of the flaming and burnt j-box BP modules I had to replace were UL listed. - Original Message - From: Wind-sun.com To: RE-wrenches Sent: Wednesday, July 01, 2009 12:59 AM Subject: Re: [RE-wrenches] REC Solar melt-down Old news, and horrified

Re: [RE-wrenches] REC Solar melt-down

2009-07-01 Thread Peter Parrish
...@lists.re-wrenches.org] On Behalf Of Joel Davidson Sent: Tuesday, June 30, 2009 9:06 PM To: RE-wrenches Subject: Re: [RE-wrenches] REC Solar melt-down What frame material has that high a coefficient of expansion? - Original Message - From: Nick Vida mailto:nickv...@ymail.com

[RE-wrenches] REC Solar melt-down

2009-06-30 Thread Marco
Anyone else out there horrified by this kind of news from REC Solar in Norway? WTF?! marco REC to Recall All of Its Solar Panels From 2008 Thursday, 18 June 2009 13:43 Greentech Media Renewable Energy Corp will repair or change all of the solar panels it sold in 2008 and a quarter

Re: [RE-wrenches] REC Solar melt-down

2009-06-30 Thread Matt Lafferty
Thanks for posting this, Marco. Somehow I missed this story last week. Funny in an ironic, twisted way. A friend of ours was in town visiting this afternoon. He mentioned that he was considering buying some REC modules out of Norway... Good deal on them, etc. (Can't tell ya the price he

[RE-wrenches] REC Solar melt-down

2009-06-30 Thread Nick Vida
wrenches, the defect in REC panels is the frame expands past the panel and can contract and break the glass. Unfortunate, but no big deal in a lot of ways. I dont know if there is another defect, but that one would warrant a recall instead of replacing a lot of panels. There was also an