[RE-wrenches] Aquion Batteries

2016-01-31 Thread William Dorsett
Our utility wanted to add a new capacity and demand charge to all solar customers' bills. And the new California Public Utilities Commission decision on net metering included a mandate for new solar installs to join Time of Use pricing by 2019. This seems to be the trend that many grid connected PV

Re: [RE-wrenches] 600V charge controller questions

2016-01-31 Thread Roy Rakobitsch
Allan, you could network multiple Morningstar 600v controllers for the output ampacity required (up to 4 controllers, ...yeah, I know they are expensive). Would you even need a transfer switch? Why not just wire Fronius IG and Morningstar controller inputs in parallel (with associated fuses and di

[RE-wrenches] Enphase M190 current limiting

2016-01-31 Thread Rebecca Lundberg
I just noticed that several of our sites with Enphase M190s are current limiting at 140 watts. These units used to clip at 199 watts so I feel like our customers just lost a potential 30% of their power output. It appears to be related to a firmware update 520-8-r01-v01.08.00. We've got one sit

Re: [RE-wrenches] 600V charge controller questions

2016-01-31 Thread Ray Walters
We were called in on a system similar to this, and we ended up just installing an AC transfer switch. Normally the GT array sold back to the grid side of the system, but in an extended outage, the customer had the option to switch the connection to the back up load side (AC coupled) He was made