[RE-wrenches] Radian and Fortress incident

2022-12-27 Thread Ben's Solar and Battery via RE-wrenches
Adding to this, I've had one early Fortress Evault that had a mosfet on the BMS smoke during startup. We ended up replacing the BMS under warranty due to the fact that the unit was in a very difficult location, and removal of the whole unit would have been interesting. We've had no further inciden

[RE-wrenches] Top of Pole Mount Array on Ledge

2021-06-23 Thread Ben's Solar and Battery
Hi Wrenches, We typically use SunModo ground mounts with ground screws which we can put just about anywhere as our screw guy has a rock drill. We have one customer who is dead set on a top of pole mount array and will not settle for a typical ground mount with multiple posts. There is shallow ledg

[RE-wrenches] Sol ark 120v issues

2021-02-09 Thread Ben's Solar and Battery
Jay, That was probably me. I did try it again (on camera again) and it started the compressor 3 times in a row. There could have been an unbalanced load on 1 leg, but I'm not sure. Sol-Ark says they've mostly fixed this issue, so I'll be doing a firmware update and trying the test again. I'll s