The Minute Mate DC isolator comes fitted with four integral Type 4 connectors – so the unit can simply be plugged in to the final solar PV panel in the array, and the inverter. The entire unit is ...

Thursday, July 27 started like any other day for Darwin resident Rose Dela Cruz. But at 7am, it veered close to disaster. There has been a significant jump in the number of DC isolator fires in the NT ...

When choosing a switch to use in an electrical design project, there is a perception that it is possible to use any switch, provided its current rating is greater than the maximum load in the circuit.

FORT COLLINS, Colo. & BOBLINGEN, Germany (June 13, 2023) — In partnership with Ampt, the world’s #1 DC optimizer company for large-scale PV systems, JONSOL, the German manufacturer of high-quality and ...

More inverters are coming to the end of their life, and needing replacement, as the solar photovoltaic (PV) industry matures. Inverter failures usually occur on systems that are 10-plus years old. At ...

As envisioned by First Solar at their Analyst Day in 2016, the MVDC plant architecture replaces DC combiner boxes with DC-DC converters that boost string voltages from 1500V DC to the range of 5kV DC ...

You must provide ground fault protection for DC photovoltaic (PV) arrays. But you don’t have to, if they are ground- or pole-mounted PV arrays with not more than two source circuits isolated from ...