Re: [RE-wrenches] parallel stacking SW

2013-10-04 Thread Eric . Bentsen
: 250 South Vasco Rd., Livermore, CA 94551 *** Please consider the environment before printing this e-mail From: William Miller will...@millersolar.com To: 'RE-wrenches' re-wrenches@lists.re-wrenches.org Date: 10/03/2013 10:49 PM Subject: Re: [RE-wrenches] parallel stacking SW Sent by: re

Re: [RE-wrenches] parallel stacking SW

2013-10-03 Thread William Miller
, William Miller From: re-wrenches-boun...@lists.re-wrenches.org [mailto:re-wrenches-boun...@lists.re-wrenches.org] On Behalf Of Mac Lewis Sent: Wednesday, October 02, 2013 8:01 AM To: RE-wrenches Subject: [RE-wrenches] parallel stacking SW Hi wrenches, I have some folks that I'm

[RE-wrenches] parallel stacking SW

2013-10-02 Thread Mac Lewis
Hi wrenches, I have some folks that I'm meeting in a couple of days that have 4 Trace SW 5048 inverters. It's a very large, older compound-style installation that the original installer has bailed on. They have it set up so that there is a common battery bank and each pair of series stacked

Re: [RE-wrenches] parallel stacking SW

2013-10-02 Thread Allan Sindelar
Mac, Trace made both the SWI/PAR parallel stacking and a series stacking cable. I don't know if stacking four units in series/parallel is possible. I never investigated it, and the manual (Rev. 4.01) doesn't address it. I suspect that it's not possible,

Re: [RE-wrenches] parallel stacking SW

2013-10-02 Thread Mac Lewis
Wrenches, Nick, you are right it is a 5548. I like the separation idea and have investigated this, but each bus feeds separate homes that are quite a distance away. Alan, I forgot to mention that they often get nuisance overcurrent errors on each phase of the heavily used inverters. That was why