What faults were you seeing when it wouldn't sell? Was grid voltage or frequency off? Or was it power factor issue? I might need some technical ammo to persuade the Utility into swapping their transformer.
R. Walters r...@solarray.com Solar Engineer On Mar 31, 2010, at 1:32 PM, penobscotso...@midmaine.com wrote: > Ray, Believe me when I say I have gone through all the exercises described > so far by our esteemed colleagues. I think you will find the problem is > with the customers transformer. I continue to make impressive amounts of > kwh since the swap out last week. > > Daryl > > > > >> Battery bank is in great shape, is brand new HUP set. >> >> Thanks, >> >> R. Walters >> r...@solarray.com >> Solar Engineer >> >> >> >> >> On Mar 31, 2010, at 6:19 AM, t...@hughes.net wrote: >> >>> Ask the customer to ck the cells for bubbling during the charging period >>> to make sure the cells all are good OR Isolate the battery banks to make >>> sure there isn't a dead cell the OBs are trying to charge. BB1 one day, >>> BB2 the next & so on. >>> Sent via BlackBerry by AT&T >>> >>> -----Original Message----- >>> From: R Ray Walters <r...@solarray.com> >>> Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2010 10:42:58 >>> To: RE-wrenches<re-wrenches@lists.re-wrenches.org> >>> Subject: [RE-wrenches] Outback Grid Problems >>> >>> We currently have a Grid Tie system with a pair of Outback inverters >>> that are regularly dropping out of sell mode, and letting the arrays >>> spend all day charging the battery bank. >>> It seems to do this several times a week, and the customer is losing >>> substantial production, and gassing the batteries too much. >>> It will reset itself the next day, or the customer resets it by turning >>> off the inverters manually. >>> The system is 24 v, with an old array of 1800 watts running through 2 >>> FM60s, and a new array of 2800 watts running through another pair of >>> FM60s. >>> The battery bank is HUP about 4100 Ah @ 24 v (3 strings of 1375 Ah each) >>> Big battery, I know, but the customer is an electrical engineer, who >>> wanted maximum storage capacity. >>> >>> Outback tech support has not resolved the issue, and this has turned >>> into several service calls, and customer frustration. >>> We've tried running the controllers through the HUB, and also >>> independently, and that doesn't make a difference. >>> I have numerous Outback GT installs dating back to 2003, and have never >>> had a problem like this. >>> Any help or advice would as always be greatly appreciated. >>> >>> Thank you in advance fellow Wrenches, >>> >>> R. Walters >>> r...@solarray.com >>> Solar Engineer >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> 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 >> >> > > > _______________________________________________ > 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
