[RE-wrenches] 60 Cell & Small 12 V System

2014-06-19 Thread Drake
Hello Wrenches, A small town wants to put a kiosk in a park with a video display. It would be great to power this with a 60 cell, 255 W module and charge a 12 V battery. Morningstar has a product that would do this, but it will only pass through 200 W. Is there a new product on the market th

Re: [RE-wrenches] 60 Cell & Small 12 V System

2014-06-19 Thread Mac Lewis
Hi Drake, A Midnite Kid should do that. Thanks On Thu, Jun 19, 2014 at 7:30 AM, Drake wrote: > Hello Wrenches, > > A small town wants to put a kiosk in a park with a video display. It would > be great to power this with a 60 cell, 255 W module and charge a 12 V > battery. Morningstar has a p

Re: [RE-wrenches] 60 Cell & Small 12 V System

2014-06-19 Thread Daniel Young
Hey Drake, We're finding that the small systems are cheaper if you use a 72 cell module, then a simple PWM charge controller with 24v battery and the smallest 24v inverter you can find, samlex makes a 300w 24v sine wave inverter for about $160. That combo can often come in lower than using a sp

Re: [RE-wrenches] Proposal Sketching Tool/Software

2014-06-19 Thread Daniel Young
Very nice Jason! I’ll certainly take a look at that plugin. I should mention the 2hr sketch was including the detailed roof measurements and placement of all the roof obstructions. I’m not as fast as you still, as the simple best case layout would still have taken me the better part of 45min

Re: [RE-wrenches] Proposal Sketching Tool/Software

2014-06-19 Thread Jason Szumlanski
I think he offers a free version of Instant Roofs that has reduced features and fewer roof pitch options. I used to do it the old school way, and my jaw hit the floor when I tried the plugin. It takes a bit of tinkering, but once you understand how it works you can deal with varying beam heights, g

Re: [RE-wrenches] 60 Cell & Small 12 V System

2014-06-19 Thread Bob-O Schultze
Look into the BZ Products MPPT 500. Bob-O On Jun 19, 2014, at 6:30 AM, Drake wrote: Hello Wrenches, A small town wants to put a kiosk in a park with a video display. It would be great to power this with a 60 cell, 255 W module and charge a 12 V battery. Morningstar has a product that would d

Re: [RE-wrenches] Lumos LSX250 modules

2014-06-19 Thread Benn Kilburn
To those who have used the suction cups to help with handling these mods, did you purchase or rent the suction cups? Any insights to share regarding your choices? I have a 19kw vertical wall install coming up in a couple weeks. benn > On Jun 13, 2014, at 1:42 PM, Corey Shalanski > wrote: >

Re: [RE-wrenches] Lumos LSX250 modules

2014-06-19 Thread Solar
This is the brand I have. I have used them for silicon energy modules as well. My old man is a carpenter and does a lot of commercial entrance doors and commercial window setting he has a different brand, but he uses 8" suction as well. https://www.google.com/shopping/product/1637173337912862