Dave:
With all due respect, I don’t see this as an issue. All of our building wire is rated at 600 volts. If you segregate your OPCD, work neatly and bundle your various lead groupings I think it is perfectly safe. If one is real paranoid, you could rivet in some partitions or more simply, sleeve the 600 VDC leads in NMLT. I looked all through the documentation for the cabinets and no voltage rating is given. We cannot assume the rating is a limitation until we find one. Let us all know if you are privy to this detail. I would not hesitate to integrate the 600 volt rated Conext branded charge controllers into Conext branded BOS cabinets as long as the workmanship is good. William Miller Miller Solar 17395 Oak Road, Atascadero, CA 93422 805-438-5600 www.millersolar.com CA Lic. 773985 *From:* Dave Angelini Offgrid Solar [mailto:offgridso...@sti.net] *Sent:* Wednesday, January 26, 2022 11:15 AM *To:* will...@millersolar.com; RE-wrenches *Subject:* Re: [RE-wrenches] High Voltage Breakers for Conext Mppt-80-600 It is 600vdc ! Do you want that in a PDP with your 48Vdc and 120/240vac? I do not believe it to be UL listed for 600vdc in there, and so you are breaking some pretty big rules here. I do not post much anymore here. Keep 600vdc out of the PDP and for Offgrid we always want high reliability. Just good design practice! *Dave Angelini Offgrid Solar* *"we go where powerlines don't"* *http://members.sti.net/offgridsolar/ <http://members.sti.net/offgridsolar/>* *e-mail offgridso...@sti.net <offgridso...@sti.net>* *text 209 813 0060* On Wed, 26 Jan 2022 10:04:49 -0800, William Miller <will...@millersolar.com> wrote: Michael: This seems like a rather stunning oversight—offering a charge controller without any means to integrate it into the BOS built by the same manufacturer. Just now I laid a 600 VDC rated touch-safe fuse holder over a QOU breaker. The fuse holder is smaller than the breaker so it would fit in the PDP. The fuse holder would be a bit recessed which may look awkward and impede the opening of the fuse holder. I do know you can buy DIN rail of varying height. Maybe you could drill out the rivets on the DIN rail and replace a short section of it with high profile DIN Rail and make a somewhat elegant solution??? Good luck. William Miller Miller Solar 17395 Oak Road, Atascadero, CA 93422 805-438-5600 www.millersolar.com CA Lic. 773985 *From:* RE-wrenches [mailto:re-wrenches-boun...@lists.re-wrenches.org] *On Behalf Of *Michael Morningstar *Sent:* Tuesday, January 25, 2022 4:53 PM *To:* RE-wrenches *Subject:* Re: [RE-wrenches] High Voltage Breakers for Conext Mppt-80-600 Thanks guys, Just wanted to make sure I wasn't missing something. Curious that Schneider doesn't have higher voltage input breakers. On Jan 25, 2022, at 4:15 PM, Tump <t...@swnl.net> wrote: I use the SQD fused disco I mount this next to the CC and use the Flex cobra wire for the low DC voltage and the do have breakers for the context for that On Jan 25, 2022, at 7:04 PM, Tom Duffy <t...@solar-biz.com> wrote: Hi Mike No breakers I know of that fit the Conext boxes but you could use a MidNite Big Baby and a MidNite 600 volt breaker in it or even a touch safe 1000 volt fuse and holder they're DIN rail *Tom Duffy* *Senior Solar Design Engineer* Supply chain crunches brought on by the pandemic and Omicron's toll on the workforce are causing shortages of goods. Most analysts agree that rising prices — not just in the US, but also across the world — are largely consequences of the Covid-19 crisis rather than policy errors by governments or central banks. Infectious waves have closed factories in Asian manufacturing hubs and caused chaos in transporting products to US markets, creating a spike in demand. 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Please notify the sender immediately by electronic mail of any unintended recipients and delete the original message without making any copies. *From:* RE-wrenches <re-wrenches-boun...@lists.re-wrenches.org> *On Behalf Of* Michael Morningstar *Sent:* Tuesday, January 25, 2022 1:02 PM *To:* RE-wrenches <re-wrenches@lists.re-wrenches.org> *Subject:* [RE-wrenches] High Voltage Breakers for Conext Mppt-80-600 Wrenches, Can anyone direct me to PV input breakers that are rated up to 600VDC that would work in a Conext Distribution Panel? From what I can tell, Schneider only offers breakers up to 160VDC. Thanks, Michael *Michael Morningstar* *Morningstar Electric* PO Box 1494 Mount Shasta, California 96067 530-921-0560 CSLB 949635 _______________________________________________ List sponsored by Redwood Alliance Pay optional member dues here: http://re-wrenches.org 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 There are two list archives for searching. 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