Archive for November 16th, 2009
No Controls
Imagine buying a car with no instruments at all - no fuel gauge, oil pressure indicator, no speedometer or tachometer. Now imagine that none of the controls were functional - no brakes, no gears, no lights - just an on/off switch. This is how I feel when I see customers using an Outback or Magnum or Xantrex XW inverter without the "optional" programming remote (ie. Mate, MERC, or SCP). It's just crazy. You can only operate on the factory defaults (which probably aren't right for your batteries) and have no idea about what's happening inside your inverter. So ...
Declining Module Prices
A good friend asked whether he ought to stock in the face of declining module prices - were they not going to keep dropping and leave him stranded with high-priced modules? News stories say that module prices will drop 40% by end of year - is it true? Well, I don't believe many news stories about solar. Hardly anyone knows what they are talking about - a few months ago you could read that module production was going to double in 2009 (won't happen). This is a cyclical business and most participants in the industry today have joined ...
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February 16, 2009