Forget spire... It's now time for VC funded homebrew bozo panel assembly lines! Yikes!
In all seriousness though, I have a buddy that has been "making" solar panels for Years. Often down in Nicaragua, sometimes here in Appalachia... Gets seconds (4ths?) from evergreen or eBay, lays em out on a sheet of glass, tabs them and then pours some encapsulant and a wooden frame... A friend has one with a polititsl yard sign as the backing membrane! Instead of a j box he has an old electric cord coming out. I Will advise him not to place his "bargain" near anything flamible. For a brighter energy future, Geoff Greenfield President Third Sun Solar & Wind Power Ltd. 340 West State Street, Unit 25 Athens, OH 45701 740.597.3111 Fax 740.597.1548 www.Third-Sun.com Clean Energy - Expertly Installed ----- Engineering Services Co. <khu...@revolutionearth.com> wrote: > I tracked this down on Whitepages.com > > http://yellowpages.superpages.com/mapbasedsearch/mapsearch.jsp?SRC=comwp&C=Marriage+To+Go+Com&T=beverly+hills&S=CA&STYPE=S&L=Beverly+Hills+CA&R=N&EG=1&RR=10&LID=2064408120&map.x=212&map.y=125&level=8&lat=034022631&lng=-118449410&POI1lat=034022631&POI1lng=-118449410&POI1name=Marriage+To+Go+Com&streetaddress=3435+Ocean+Park+Boulevard&city=Santa+Monica&state=CA&zip=90405&spad=no > > > Ken Hulet > Engineering Services Co. > 204 S. Main St. > Blanchardville, WI 53516 > 608.523.3726 > > > > On Feb 12, 2009, at 7:58 PM, Joel Davidson wrote: > > > Maybe I missed this information, but does anyone know > > 1) the address of this system? > > 2) the installer? > > See http://www.marriagetogo.com/homeoffice.html > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: Michael Welch > > To: 'RE-wrenches' > > Sent: Wednesday, February 11, 2009 6:48 PM > > Subject: Re: [RE-wrenches] Panel Fire > > > > This seems corroborating. It has GOT to be the same situation: > > http://www.examiner.com/x-432-Wedding-and-Marriage- > > Examiner~y2009m2d10-Our-wedding-anniversary-like-a-house-on-fire- > > literally > > > > Search the page for "solar" to get to the crux of it, and . > > > > P.S. Tempered glass won't melt, but clear plastic goop poured over > > the top of silicon cells (which can be seen littering the roof) will > > melt. These are probably homemade modules. What I see on the charred > > roof is consistent with plastic encapsulated modules burning and > > melting. Also, the racking is consistent with the first pre-fire > > photo. > > > > These poor folks really got taken to the cleaners by their > > "installer" which MUST BE STOPPED. > > > > Brian Sipp wrote at 06:17 PM 2/11/2009: > > > >> I may be very wrong here and I don’t mean to impugn anyone’s > >> integrity, but don’t forget that in this era of digital animation > >> movies you can’t always believe what you see in a 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. I’ve never seen a photo look like > >> that in reality. It’s 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: > >> From: Allan Sindelar <al...@positiveenergysolar.com> > >> Subject: Re: [RE-wrenches] Panel Fire > >> To: "'RE-wrenches'" <re-wrenches@lists.re-wrenches.org> > >> Date: Wednesday, February 11, 2009, 12:57 PM > >> 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. > >> Allan at + NRG > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > 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 > > > > _______________________________________________ > > 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 > > > _______________________________________________ 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
