Re: [RE-wrenches] Fat Spaniel

2010-11-08 Thread Glenn Burt
e liquidating the company. Yeow.anyone know what happened with them? And what's going to happen to all the hundreds of PV systems that they're monitoring on their website? marco __ NOD32 5602 (20101108) Information __ This message was checked by NOD32 an

Re: [RE-wrenches] Fat Spaniel

2010-11-08 Thread Carl Emerson
t happened with them? And what's going to happen to all the hundreds of PV systems that they're monitoring on their website? marco __ NOD32 5602 (20101108) Information __ This message was checked by NOD32 antivirus sy

Re: [RE-wrenches] Grundfos

2010-11-08 Thread Roy Butler
Good info as always Phil! I want to add one more tip to Phil's troubleshooting procedure. If you have full sun, jumper the PV output to the pump input conductors and if the pump runs, the controller is at fault. That's assuming that the float switch is calling f

[RE-wrenches] Fat Spaniel

2010-11-08 Thread Marco Mangelsdorf
Just got a letter from Fat Spaniel Technologies. If my legalese is up to snuff, it appears that they're liquidating the company. Yeow.anyone know what happened with them? And what's going to happen to all the hundreds of PV systems that they're monitoring on their website? marco

Re: [RE-wrenches] Grundfos

2010-11-08 Thread Roy Butler
Ah yes, the dreaded F3. Loss of communication between the Cu200 controller and the pump. Grundfos has had this problem on and off for several years now and I wish they would correct it once and for all. We've had 9 systems with the F3 fault and 8 were bad CU200

Re: [RE-wrenches] Grundfos

2010-11-08 Thread Phil Undercuffler
I believe the F3 error code was the known communication issue with the CU200 controller. Basically, it loses communication with the pump and so throws the error code. I saw a bunch of CU200 controller issues in my previous job; GF acknowledged they had a bad batch, and were pretty good about swap

Re: [RE-wrenches] Grundfos

2010-11-08 Thread Kent Osterberg
Gary, I've had trouble with the rubber sticking to the helical rotor in a couple Lorentz pumps.  Both were off for several months during the winter because the cattle are gone.   Seems like your Grundfos pump situation is different. Kent Osterberg Blue Mountain Solar Gary Gordon at SYV Sola

Re: [RE-wrenches] Grundfos

2010-11-08 Thread Gary Gordon at SYV Solar
Kent, It would only be off if the tanks were full. Why? Gary _ From: re-wrenches-boun...@lists.re-wrenches.org [mailto:re-wrenches-boun...@lists.re-wrenches.org] On Behalf Of Kent Osterberg Sent: Monday, November 08, 2010 4:58 PM To: RE-wrenches Subject: Re: [RE-wrenches] Grundfos G

Re: [RE-wrenches] Grundfos

2010-11-08 Thread Kent Osterberg
Gary, Any chance that the pumping system is off during the winter? Kent Osterberg Blue Mountain Solar Gary Gordon at SYV Solar wrote: Wrenches,   More details on the Grundfos failures:   1st failure 11 SQF-2 w/ 204ft TDH    2nd failure 6 SQF-2 w/ 220ft. TDH    3rd failure 

Re: [RE-wrenches] Grundfos

2010-11-08 Thread Gary Gordon at SYV Solar
Wrenches, More details on the Grundfos failures: 1st failure 11 SQF-2 w/ 204ft TDH 2nd failure 6 SQF-2 w/ 220ft. TDH 3rd failure 6 SQF-2 w/ 253ft. TDH All controllers were displaying F3 failures, there was voltage at the well head. Only one replaced so far and seems to work fine. An