KID Clipper

[bennyspoon]

any clipper progress updates?

[bennyspoon]

does anyone know if the kid clipper still going ahead, there has been no word on this for months now?

i hope it's not dead in the water.

[bennyspoon]

bueller....... bueller...... anyone?

[Robin]

Progress on the Kid clipper has been zero. Mario has two other projects he is working on. A redesign of the SPD's. boB and Mario are flying to Boston tomorrow for testing of the SPD's. We suspect that they testing will go well and them Mario can put that project to bed. The Kid just needs the new AGS board to work in Bully mode. Mario is almost done with that code. It has been a real @&%@ trying to get the Kids to reconnect all by themselves when one does disconnect for any reason. It is almost done, but give him a few more weeks. Then Mario is on to the Kid Clipper. The hardware has been done for a long time, just not tested.
I would be careful in using a Morningstar controller for wind. What is the maximum voltage it will see?

[bennyspoon]

that is awesome to hear robin.

i was worrying that maybe you guys had pulled the pin on it.

couple of months then and we may see some action, sounds great.

what is an spd?
cheers.

[TomW]

what is an spd?
cheers.

Surge Protection Device

[Robin]

An SPD is a surge protective device. (lightning arrestor)
Nah, we almost never pull the plug on projects. We just keep on adding more, so the priorities get moved around.
Once an engineer gets one or two projects into production, it greatly slows down the time he has available to do new projects. The regular production stuff ends up taking some of their time to support production, warranty stuff, design changes etc. Mario has two significant projects in production. Last week he was working on code for Bully mode and he decided to go home and work where it would be more quiet. We now have a second desk for him in the other engineering building too so he can have a quiet place to work.
Midnite is a very busy and crowded place in our main building. We have two additional buildings. Half of the engineers work in building #3. That is where some of us worked 20 years ago when that building was Trace engineering. Then it was Xantrex and after that it was the Outback engineering building. Lots of solar designs came out of that building.

[Highflyer]

boB and Mario going to Boston, (note to them, bring a snow shovel). 

Solar history in one building, if only those walls could talk...

Learning there is a new SPD on its way  !!!!!!

Learning new stuff is on the way  (inverter please)   !!!!!!

The clipper is still in design, also great news.

When do the engineers sleep?

[xsnrg]

When do the engineers sleep?

They don't sleep.  They float.

[Doug]

When we go to lunch we ABSORB, that causes us to BULK.
Too much of Ryan's Jack Daniels can cause one to FLOAT.

[vtmaps]

Learning there is a new SPD on its way  !!!!!!

I wonder if the "new" SPD is this:  http://midniteforum.com/index.php?topic=725

--vtMaps

[bennyspoon]

how's that clipper coming along robin, any news?

[bennyspoon]

bump.

[bennyspoon]

has there been any news since the video of robin and mario talking about the kid wind clipper?

we must be getting near the pointy end now i hope.

[Mario]

Hello All, I have been working on other stuff but the clipper and Wind Kid is coming, we get the boards for the clipper next week and we have ordered the sheet metal to go with it, I have written code for wind and clipper control, I am guessing in the next month we will have some beta units ready to go.

Mario Rodriguez