Allan, there are 4 modules pictured in the ³before² photo, not 8. The after photo show the ³good² modules, the ones that did not burn. This suggests there are 4 module each on two separate roof faces. Please have another look at the before picture and count the frames. In the before picture each 250 W mystery module is supported at 4 corners only. They are some sort of large format modules. Nothing I can find online matches these characteristics, especially the superstrate material.
Please re-read the homeowner¹s account in these various postings as well. Sundiego indicates that the module superstrate is not glass, but some other material. Apparently it is a material that melts when exposed to flame. It sure isn¹t glass, that¹s pretty clear by the photos and the written account. This does not look like an elaborate hoax to me. It does look, as BB points out, like a potential crime scene, a fraud at the very least. Something was misrepresented to this customer. It¹s pretty apparent that these modules are not listed and identified for the application. The installation isn¹t vaguely appropriate. It¹s just dumb luckliterallythat the house didn¹t burn down. Clearly the narrator is unreliable, but I don¹t think it is malicious, just ignorance. The dude¹s a ³solar newbie² and his house caught on fire. That¹s what it looks like to me. David On 2/11/09 6:57 PM, "Allan Sindelar" <al...@positiveenergysolar.com> wrote: > I guess I'm not the only one who's suspicious of this whole story. This came > to me off list. Some of the post here doesn't jive - it's pretty clear there's > no glass, and the blurry corner doesn't look it to me. > > -----Original Message----- > From: > > I may be very wrong here and I don¹t mean to impugn anyone¹s integrity but > don¹t forget that in this era of digital animation movies you can¹t always > believe what you see in photo either. (I'm sure no one here has ever > Photoshopped a photo to make it more presentable looking.) I couldn't help > but notice that the bottom right corner of the photo was surprisingly blurry > and indistinct. It is difficult to distinguish one thing from the next, when > just a few feet away but out of the range of detail in the photo, things > seemed to be much clearer. I¹ve never seen a photo look like that in > reality. It¹s as if the roof and array have mysteriously melted together. > Also, I have never seen tempered glass melt in a low temperature fire. If > it were a high temperature fire the roof would not have survived. I think > that a great deal of caution is warranted especially considering the lack of > detail that the poster is giving about the panels, location, > installer/supplier, existence of another array etc. > --- On Wed, 2/11/09, Allan Sindelar <al...@positiveenergysolar.com> wrote: > One detail I haven't heard mentioned yet and am curious about - the photo of > the fire damage appears to show the corner of another west(?)-facing array. I > find it curious that the system owner described a 2 kW system made up of > eight 250W(!) modules, which are clearly visible in the topmost system photo. > There's just a whole lot that doesn't jive in this whole story. Scary to me . > > > _______________________________________________ > List sponsored by Home Power magazine > > List Address: RE-wrenches@lists.re-wrenches.org > > Options & settings: > http://lists.re-wrenches.org/options.cgi/re-wrenches-re-wrenches.org > > List-Archive: > http://lists.re-wrenches.org/pipermail/re-wrenches-re-wrenches.org > > List rules & etiquette: > www.re-wrenches.org/etiquette.htm > > Check out participant bios: > www.members.re-wrenches.org > > >
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