Yes, for about the same value.  With summer ambient around 45=B0C, and
the products not being specified for that, we end up with an insulated
equipment cabinet and an active cooling system.

On Mon, Aug 14, 2017 at 05:38:52PM -0700, Denny Esterline wrote:
> Any possibility of shortening the run from the other end? e.g. Move the
> inverters and/or charger parts to a weatherproof box/housing/shed and the=
n
> run a more conventional AC line to the house?
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> On Mon, Aug 14, 2017 at 12:01 AM, James Cameron <quozl@laptop.org> wrote:
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> > G'day,
> >
> > When cabling DC from a solar array back to an inverter charger, with
> > increasing design distance, what are the precautions for the cable
> > design?
> >
> > My previous post on 1st August;
> >
> > > (Which reminds me; placing the solar array 50m away beyond trees is
> > > apparently quite costly, four strings at 400V each means the
> > > underground DC cable back to the battery inverters has to be more
> > > special than normal.)
> >
> > Context: a 10 kW array, four strings, nominal 400 VDC, over either 10
> > metres or 60 metres in buried conduit.
> >
> > It is a design tradeoff.  If we can do the extra distance, we get to
> > keep some trees for shade.
> >
> > My designer is costing the extra 50 metres as a different type of
> > cable, with added interface gear, at around $9k, and I'm not yet sure
> > why.
> >
> > Gut feel is "add another panel", so I must be missing something.
> >
> > I'll find out more this time tomorrow, I hope.
> >
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