Re: [RE-wrenches] Outback Grid Problems

2010-04-04 Thread Steve Higgins
- From: re-wrenches-boun...@lists.re-wrenches.org [mailto:re-wrenches-boun...@lists.re-wrenches.org] On Behalf Of penobscotso...@midmaine.com Sent: Sunday, April 04, 2010 8:26 AM To: RE-wrenches Subject: Re: [RE-wrenches] Outback Grid Problems That's a great tip Steve. Is there a downs

Re: [RE-wrenches] Outback Grid Problems

2010-04-04 Thread penobscotsolar
ailto:re-wrenches-boun...@lists.re-wrenches.org] On Behalf Of R Ray > Walters > Sent: Tuesday, March 30, 2010 11:54 AM > To: RE-wrenches > Subject: Re: [RE-wrenches] Outback Grid Problems > > I considered that there could be something happening due to the grid, as > this guy is way o

Re: [RE-wrenches] Outback Grid Problems

2010-04-04 Thread Steve Higgins
lington Wa 98223 360-618-4313 -Original Message- From: re-wrenches-boun...@lists.re-wrenches.org [mailto:re-wrenches-boun...@lists.re-wrenches.org] On Behalf Of R Ray Walters Sent: Tuesday, March 30, 2010 11:54 AM To: RE-wrenches Subject: Re: [RE-wrenches] Outback Grid Problems I considered

Re: [RE-wrenches] Outback Grid Problems

2010-04-02 Thread Glenn Burt
lackBerry by AT&T > > -Original Message- > From: penobscotso...@midmaine.com > Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2010 19:31:21 > To: RE-wrenches > Subject: Re: [RE-wrenches] Outback Grid Problems > > Hi Ray, > It's very funny this comes up with you now. I have a 3500

Re: [RE-wrenches] Outback Grid Problems

2010-03-31 Thread penobscotsolar
gt;>>> Ask the customer to ck the cells for bubbling during the charging >>>> period >>>> to make sure the cells all are good OR Isolate the battery banks to >>>> make >>>> sure there isn't a dead cell the OBs are trying to charge.

Re: [RE-wrenches] Outback Grid Problems

2010-03-31 Thread Jeff Oldham
If you only need to log V, A and Hz (for this need anyway) you would do fine with the Fluke 289. I have one and love it. It will download to a computer too with FlukeView Forms via the IR port and interface cable (comes with FlukeView). This is a VERY fast meter and will capture anything that I

Re: [RE-wrenches] Outback Grid Problems

2010-03-31 Thread R Ray Walters
> -Original Message- > From: penobscotso...@midmaine.com > Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2010 19:31:21 > To: RE-wrenches > Subject: Re: [RE-wrenches] Outback Grid Problems > > Hi Ray, > It's very funny this comes up with you now. I have a 3500 watt array > running my

Re: [RE-wrenches] Outback Grid Problems

2010-03-31 Thread R Ray Walters
gt; BB2 the next & so on. >>> Sent via BlackBerry by AT&T >>> >>> -Original Message- >>> From: R Ray Walters >>> Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2010 10:42:58 >>> To: RE-wrenches >>> Subject: [RE-wrenches] Outback Grid Problems &g

Re: [RE-wrenches] Outback Grid Problems

2010-03-31 Thread R Ray Walters
ect till the >>>> next day. >>>> >>>> R. Walters >>>> r...@solarray.com >>>> Solar Engineer >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> On Mar 30, 2010, at 10:57 AM, Brian Teitelbaum wrote: >>>

Re: [RE-wrenches] Outback Grid Problems

2010-03-31 Thread penobscotsolar
cells all are good OR Isolate the battery banks to make >> sure there isn't a dead cell the OBs are trying to charge. BB1 one day, >> BB2 the next & so on. >> Sent via BlackBerry by AT&T >> >> -Original Message----- >> From: R Ray Walters &

Re: [RE-wrenches] Outback Grid Problems

2010-03-31 Thread Randy Brooks
30, 2010 9:43 AM To: RE-wrenches Subject: [RE-wrenches] Outback Grid Problems We currently have a Grid Tie system with a pair of Outback inverters that are regularly dropping out of sell mode, and letting the arrays spend all day charging the battery bank. It seems to do this several times a

Re: [RE-wrenches] Outback Grid Problems

2010-03-31 Thread R Ray Walters
would be enough to kick the inverters out of connection? >>> >>> Brian Teitelbaum >>> AEE Solar >>> >>> >>> >>> -Original Message- >>> From: re-wrenches-boun...@lists.re-wrenches.org >>> [mailto:re-wrenches-boun...@

Re: [RE-wrenches] Outback Grid Problems

2010-03-31 Thread R Ray Walters
te the battery banks to make sure > there isn't a dead cell the OBs are trying to charge. BB1 one day, BB2 the > next & so on. > Sent via BlackBerry by AT&T > > -Original Message- > From: R Ray Walters > Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2010 10:42:58 > To: RE-wre

Re: [RE-wrenches] Outback Grid Problems

2010-03-31 Thread tump
ginal Message- From: R Ray Walters Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2010 10:42:58 To: RE-wrenches Subject: [RE-wrenches] Outback Grid Problems We currently have a Grid Tie system with a pair of Outback inverters that are regularly dropping out of sell mode, and letting the arrays spend all day charging the

Re: [RE-wrenches] Outback Grid Problems

2010-03-31 Thread tump
rian Teitelbaum > AEE Solar > > > > -Original Message- > From: re-wrenches-boun...@lists.re-wrenches.org > [mailto:re-wrenches-boun...@lists.re-wrenches.org] On Behalf Of R Ray > Walters > Sent: Tuesday, March 30, 2010 9:43 AM > To: RE-wrenches > Subject: [RE-

Re: [RE-wrenches] Outback Grid Problems

2010-03-30 Thread Randy Brooks
] On Behalf Of R Ray Walters Sent: Tuesday, March 30, 2010 9:43 AM To: RE-wrenches Subject: [RE-wrenches] Outback Grid Problems We currently have a Grid Tie system with a pair of Outback inverters that are regularly dropping out of sell mode, and letting the arrays spend all day charging the

Re: [RE-wrenches] Outback Grid Problems

2010-03-30 Thread penobscotsolar
; > > > -Original Message- > From: re-wrenches-boun...@lists.re-wrenches.org > [mailto:re-wrenches-boun...@lists.re-wrenches.org] On Behalf Of R Ray > Walters > Sent: Tuesday, March 30, 2010 9:43 AM > To: RE-wrenches > Subject: [RE-wrenches] Outback Grid Problem

Re: [RE-wrenches] Outback Grid Problems

2010-03-30 Thread R Ray Walters
> To: RE-wrenches > Subject: [RE-wrenches] Outback Grid Problems > > We currently have a Grid Tie system with a pair of Outback inverters that are > regularly dropping out of sell mode, and letting the arrays spend all day > charging the battery bank. > It seems to do this

Re: [RE-wrenches] Outback Grid Problems

2010-03-30 Thread toddcory
Ray, what is the AC output voltage at the inverters while they are selling? If it goes too high (too small of a delivery wire) you will have to raise the sell voltage by specifying "USER" in the mate. Todd On Tuesday, March 30, 2010 9:42am, "R Ray Walters" said: > We currently have a Grid Tie

Re: [RE-wrenches] Outback Grid Problems

2010-03-30 Thread Brian Teitelbaum
-wrenches.org] On Behalf Of R Ray Walters Sent: Tuesday, March 30, 2010 9:43 AM To: RE-wrenches Subject: [RE-wrenches] Outback Grid Problems We currently have a Grid Tie system with a pair of Outback inverters that are regularly dropping out of sell mode, and letting the arrays spend all day charging

[RE-wrenches] Outback Grid Problems

2010-03-30 Thread R Ray Walters
We currently have a Grid Tie system with a pair of Outback inverters that are regularly dropping out of sell mode, and letting the arrays spend all day charging the battery bank. It seems to do this several times a week, and the customer is losing substantial production, and gassing the batterie