Hiya Ray,
In my experience, off-grid is always as steady as it ever was except for the 
Y2K burp. Those of us who know how to design and install for that market will 
always have some work, even in a crappy economy. At NABCEP, we take a lot of 
heat from all the new on-grid only installers who don't see or understand the 
value in learning about battery-based systems. They would like us to drop that 
part of the task analysis entirely from the Certification. I, for one, am 
resisting that insisting that's part of the overall trade. I'm concerned that 
if we certify installers without testing for battery knowledge, they will go 
and install a battery based system sooner or later anyway and NABCEP will look 
like fools if they muck it up.
Bob-O


On Nov 23, 2009, at 10:15 AM, R Ray Walters wrote:


Funny, because although Off grid has remained relatively slow compared to the 
crazy GT market, its also been very steady.

Ray

On Nov 23, 2009, at 9:07 AM, wind...@wind-sun.com wrote:

> Nearly everything so far that we have been seeing shortages in is in off-grid 
> equipment. We have not seen a huge increase or decrease in off-grid, but 
> apparently some of the mfg's decided there would be a big drop. With the 
> exception of a couple of particular models of inverters, we have seen no real 
> shortages in grid tie.
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