Re: [RE-wrenches] modules near salt water

2010-11-10 Thread James Rudolph
Jeff, Hey I am on a project (600kw) down here in American Samoa, and we are using SolarWorld 240's. They were recommended to us by Inter Island Solar in Hawaii. As of Jan 2010 SolarWorld had no disclaimer on their modules. On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 6:34 AM, Jeff Yago wrote: > Most of our centra

Re: [RE-wrenches] modules near salt water

2010-10-25 Thread Mike Nelson
Jeff, Just saw an ad in my new Photon magazine for Centrosolar America Inc. C-Series modules, that is already in use in Europe, which is now available in the U.S. It claims resistance to extensive salt-spray testing, with no apparent corrosion after a 60 day saline atmosphere test, even on scratche

Re: [RE-wrenches] modules near salt water

2010-10-25 Thread Jeff Yago
Most of our central Virginia solar projects are not near saltwater, but Virginia does have a long eastern coastline on the ocean and we do get a few calls from time to time where salt corrosion is a problem.   Just starting a new proposal where ocean salt corrosion is an issue and noticed that most