on an educational note dan, can you further detail the lightning protection equipment which was incorporated into the system? specifically if spd's were in the system? i have installed several midnight spd's and am curious how they do in real world situations like this. thanks, todd On Sunday, June 15, 2014 2:22pm, "Exeltech" <exelt...@yahoo.com> said:
> Wrenches, > > My apologies for an error. When I was given information about the > lightning-damaged equipment a few days ago, my friend was understandably a bit > rattled after a direct lightning hit to his home, and inadvertently provided > incorrect model numbers for the Outback charge controllers. The correct models > are listed below. (As an added update, almost everything electrical in his > home > was destroyed. He said wall cubes for his router and weather stations > "exploded", > with only small pieces scattered around to be swept up.) > > Thank you. > > Dan > > > > A friend of mine experienced the destruction of major parts of his system in a > recent lightning storm. Everything was extensively grounded and protected, > but he > lives in an area with very high soil resistivity, so good earth ground is very > difficult to achieve. (The lightning hit his wind turbine tower directly. > Remarkably, his Bergey 10 kW survived, but everything else in his system got > fried.) > > He's looking for: > > * Two Xantrex XW6048-120/240-60 inverters. They are beyond repair. > * One Outback FX60 > * One Outback FX80 > > New-old stock or used but in good working condition units are preferred. (No > failed/repaired units please.) > > If anyone has any of these units available, or you know of any that are > available, > please contact me off-list. > > > Thank you. > > > Dan Lepinski > > > _______________________________________________ > List sponsored by Redwood Alliance > > List Address: RE-wrenches@lists.re-wrenches.org > > Change listserver email address & settings: > http://lists.re-wrenches.org/options.cgi/re-wrenches-re-wrenches.org > > List-Archive: > http://www.mail-archive.com/re-wrenches@lists.re-wrenches.org/maillist.html > > List rules & etiquette: > www.re-wrenches.org/etiquette.htm > > Check out or update participant bios: > www.members.re-wrenches.org > > Sent from Finest Planet WebMail.
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