This weekend I attended a solar training course at the Audubon Center at Debs Parks in South Pasadena. The Audubon Center is completely off-grid (i.e., it is not connected to the utility) and gets all of it's power from a 26KW solar PV system and a 10-ton solar thermal cooling system. Click link to find out more about the Audubon Center's Green Building.
The class was put on by Wade Webb (Vice President of Residential Operations and Quality Manager at Martifer Solar), who has been installing solar PV systems since 1995. Wade installed the off-grid solar PV battery system for the Audubon Center in 2003 and continues to provide maintenance for the system. When parts need to be repaired or replaced, Wade uses that as his hands-on training for the class. So in the class on Saturday, we actually removed a blown out inverter, replaced the internal controllers and reinstalled the inverter back into the system. Pretty cool. He holds classes there on every third Saturday of the month. Wade says we're going up on the roof at the next class.
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