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The genset was here for a matter of hours (was just delivered this weekend) and I am awaiting repairs on my excavator so I can complete the permanent installation of the generator, which is temporarily sitting on a trailer. Not great timing for this storm, that's fer sure! My ground mounts are...

As it turns out after inspecting the damage, it was not the charge controller that failed, but the bypass diodes in the array. When I went back there to look for visual signs of damage, I could smell burnt electronics. So I popped the covers off the junction boxes. Found many exploded diodes...

This particular array was the remaining last of the used, old panels. I was to replace them in May, but had replaced the south array and found abysmal electricity production with the new panels. Sungold and I are tussling over trying to get those replaced and in the delay, I never finished the...

He sure did.. I have a long document with all the troubleshooting and maintenance items that he sent me. I have to deal with some lightning damage to my solar power system right now.

Glad to be here! We just had a bad T-storm. Lightning struck my east solar array, took out the 6kW inverter (being used as a charger), and the the solar charge controller for that array, plus scrambled the display on our 18kW inverter. Generator is still running the Chargeverter so that part's...

Greetings to all! I'm Mark Weiss from Western CT. I'd been wanting a diesel generator since about 2010. Originally, I was considering a "quiet diesel" made by a company in the US and they were $5800, but the sticking point was no delivery up the mountain and no way to move it off a truck. Now I...