Re: [RE-wrenches] Two Load Questions

2012-12-10 Thread Ray Walters
Hi Allan; I've used the energy star rated deep freezers with good results, and I use their annual kwh listing, and divide by 365 days. I've found with actual measurements and not set to the coldest setting, that I can beat the E star ratings by up to 20% indoors. Your outdoor in winter scen

[RE-wrenches] Two Load Questions

2012-12-10 Thread Allan Sindelar
Wrenches, We still try to encourage prospective off grid customers to do a full load analysis as an initial step in the system design process. To the point: 1) What is a good watt-hours/day figure to use for a typical, modern, new, carefully chosen, fairly large

Re: [RE-wrenches] Remote relay options

2012-12-10 Thread Howie Michaelson
David, Jeff, Chris, et al, Thanks for the ideas on my remote relay query. As it turns out cutting power to the subpanel is not an option. On first pass, I thought the ideas for adjusting the generator output seemed like simple and cheap answers to a regular problem we run into (Automatic Transfe

Re: [RE-wrenches] Power One Microinverters

2012-12-10 Thread David Katz
August I have 9 of the PowerOne microinverters on the roof of the old AEE building, running for a few months. They work great so far. I like the monitoring. It connects to the inverters by WiFi. I don't think they are selling them yet. Here is a link to the on-line monitoring. https://www.au

Re: [RE-wrenches] Power One Microinverters

2012-12-10 Thread August Goers
Hi Bruce, I haven't received much feedback from the group yet on the Power One Microinverters. Marco was in-progress on a job with them and was going to get back to me off list after completion. I'm weary about the wireless communication because wireless always seems to break down at one poin

Re: [RE-wrenches] Remote relay options

2012-12-10 Thread Drake
Reviewing the posts, I agree that wouldn't help. At 06:16 PM 12/9/2012, you wrote: Then you have to find a 600V DC rated contactor. If you are going to use a contactor, which the original poster said he couldn't do, why not use the 240V AC rated, costs about $129 for a 30A contactor. On Sun