{"id":1403,"date":"2009-12-29T13:34:56","date_gmt":"2009-12-29T20:34:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kbtechworks.com\/kbranch\/blog\/?p=1403"},"modified":"2012-04-02T17:18:44","modified_gmt":"2012-04-03T00:18:44","slug":"installing-a-xantrex-xw-part-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kbtechworks.com\/kbranch\/blog\/archives\/1403","title":{"rendered":"Installing a Xantrex XW &#8211; part 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We are completely off grid. Our Xantrex system comprises an inverter, a battery bank, and a solar array.<\/p>\n<p>We got the <a href=\"http:\/\/www2.schneider-electric.com\/sites\/corporate\/en\/products-services\/renewable-energies\/products-offer\/range-presentation.page?c_filepath=\/templatedata\/Offer_Presentation\/3_Range_Datasheet\/data\/en\/shared\/renewable_energies\/xantrex_xw.xml\">Xantrex XW6048<\/a> inverter as the brains\/workhorse of our solar-powered system. Part of the reason for going with this system (rather than pieces) is the same reason I wanted the guy doing our concrete slab also taking care of the plumbing in the slab&#8211;I don&#8217;t want any finger pointing. Also, Xantrex has a great reputation. I think everyone around here that I have visited (on my tour of places using solar power) had a Xantrex inverter and they all seemed quite happy.<\/p>\n<p>I searched the web for &#8220;Installing a Xantrex XW&#8221; and found nothing &#8211; nothing useful. I hope this will help others as I seem on my own&#8230; as far as the internet goes anyway. P.D. has been enormously helpful and I&#8217;m developing a small group of great people to ask questions of via email.<\/p>\n<p>Xantrex gives you really great documentation. There&#8217;s a big bound manual and a color fold-out diagram\/layout that shows many possible configurations-grid tied, off-grid, single or multiple inverters, etc. It all seems a bit over my head, but I think I can work through it.<\/p>\n<p>As for the rest of the system, we got the <a href=\"http:\/\/k12handhelds.s3.amazonaws.com\/kbranch\/xw-controlpanel.pdf\">Control Panel<\/a>, which lets you configure and monitor all the different parts of the system from one panel, the\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/k12handhelds.s3.amazonaws.com\/kbranch\/xw-power-dist-panel.pdf\">Power Distribution Panel<\/a>, the <a href=\"http:\/\/k12handhelds.s3.amazonaws.com\/kbranch\/xw-solar-charge-controller.pdf\">Solar Charge Controller<\/a>, and the <a href=\"http:\/\/k12handhelds.s3.amazonaws.com\/kbranch\/ags.pdf\">Automatic Generator Start<\/a>. I&#8217;m sure we will need some additional parts to get it running, but was a ready to begin.<\/p>\n<p>The first matter at hand is mounting the equipment. The inverter weighs something like a hundred-thirty pounds. You don&#8217;t want to fool around with this. They give you a really solid mounting plate for both the inverter and the Power Distribution Panel (hence forth know as the, PDP).<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1442\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kbtechworks.com\/kbranch\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/inverter.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1442\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1442\" title=\"inverter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kbtechworks.com\/kbranch\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/inverter-300x300.png\" alt=\"The Inverter and the PDP mounted\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.kbtechworks.com\/kbranch\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/inverter-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/www.kbtechworks.com\/kbranch\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/inverter-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/www.kbtechworks.com\/kbranch\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/inverter-1024x1024.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.kbtechworks.com\/kbranch\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/inverter.png 2000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1442\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Inverter and the PDP mounted<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are completely off grid. Our Xantrex system comprises an inverter, a battery bank, and a solar array. We got the Xantrex XW6048 inverter as the brains\/workhorse of our solar-powered system. Part of the reason for going with this system (rather than pieces) is the same reason I wanted the guy doing our concrete slab [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[11,70],"class_list":["post-1403","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brad","tag-solar","tag-xantrex"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kbtechworks.com\/kbranch\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1403","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kbtechworks.com\/kbranch\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kbtechworks.com\/kbranch\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kbtechworks.com\/kbranch\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kbtechworks.com\/kbranch\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1403"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kbtechworks.com\/kbranch\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1403\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kbtechworks.com\/kbranch\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kbtechworks.com\/kbranch\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kbtechworks.com\/kbranch\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}