To activate or Not ? that is the question
I bought 24 Tigo TS4-A-O optimizers for my existing array of 24 panels thinking that winter sun hitting the ground mount array is slowly moving at sunrise arcross array shading 1/2 and dead of winter tree shade midday etc thae may help production . Array is 24panel 400 watt Jinkos. Hooked to Sol-Arc 12kw inverter.I also bought the CCA Kit to see actual panel data and dug a trench for data cable to tab unit on array to sol-arc web friendly area about 100 feet away.
We covered panels one day and rewired all panels in afew hours with optimizers now installed and working. I have yet to turn on the power to CCA data tab unit as that with also make them fire ready (or fire friendly) This funtion does me no good as its a ground mount and I have no reason for fire off protection. As soon as Its powered up when the power goes out the panels turn off and will not feed the Sol -Arc to charge batteries. We often have power outages and my 12 kw generator kicks in wwthin 20 seconds. The plug in outbuilding is not feeding to that generator feed yet (I still have some crawl rewiring to make that happen) so it goes dead in power outage now.
I called Tigo to see if I can deactivate the optimizers once I turn on the CCA unit power and they said no. Once on thats it always will need power to the CCA unit which feeds the tab unit which controls the optimizers. Since my system is off the county radar and I do not need any fire code stuff I'm wondering if maybe I just forget about firing up the data collection (I would not be able to current panel data info) This is a biu=it of a bummer as seeing the data via the Tigo app would be a good thing.
As of now I'm working to get generator power to outbuiling outlet and heat up the outlet to uninterrupted power and am on the fence on weather to turn it on.
Any thoughts on why this may be a bad idea as the optimizers are working now-I just cannot see the data.-The fire protection I could care less about with my ground mount array (which has disconnects at array) and inside on Sol Arc
On another note I'm using any money spent on the system for tax purposes this year so I win ether way with this expense. These cost about $1,700 plus 100 feet of 3/4 conduit and that special Data cable they required.The Tigo stuff I picked up at Alt E at thier west coast warehouse
I bought 24 Tigo TS4-A-O optimizers for my existing array of 24 panels thinking that winter sun hitting the ground mount array is slowly moving at sunrise arcross array shading 1/2 and dead of winter tree shade midday etc thae may help production . Array is 24panel 400 watt Jinkos. Hooked to Sol-Arc 12kw inverter.I also bought the CCA Kit to see actual panel data and dug a trench for data cable to tab unit on array to sol-arc web friendly area about 100 feet away.
We covered panels one day and rewired all panels in afew hours with optimizers now installed and working. I have yet to turn on the power to CCA data tab unit as that with also make them fire ready (or fire friendly) This funtion does me no good as its a ground mount and I have no reason for fire off protection. As soon as Its powered up when the power goes out the panels turn off and will not feed the Sol -Arc to charge batteries. We often have power outages and my 12 kw generator kicks in wwthin 20 seconds. The plug in outbuilding is not feeding to that generator feed yet (I still have some crawl rewiring to make that happen) so it goes dead in power outage now.
I called Tigo to see if I can deactivate the optimizers once I turn on the CCA unit power and they said no. Once on thats it always will need power to the CCA unit which feeds the tab unit which controls the optimizers. Since my system is off the county radar and I do not need any fire code stuff I'm wondering if maybe I just forget about firing up the data collection (I would not be able to current panel data info) This is a biu=it of a bummer as seeing the data via the Tigo app would be a good thing.
As of now I'm working to get generator power to outbuiling outlet and heat up the outlet to uninterrupted power and am on the fence on weather to turn it on.
Any thoughts on why this may be a bad idea as the optimizers are working now-I just cannot see the data.-The fire protection I could care less about with my ground mount array (which has disconnects at array) and inside on Sol Arc
On another note I'm using any money spent on the system for tax purposes this year so I win ether way with this expense. These cost about $1,700 plus 100 feet of 3/4 conduit and that special Data cable they required.The Tigo stuff I picked up at Alt E at thier west coast warehouse