Burned DC fuse holder and cable (Grid tied)

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  • bcroe
    Solar Fanatic
    • Jan 2012
    • 5209

    #16
    Originally posted by squelch
    hope you can help me found out the reason for this one. see attachment

    in this scenario, is it loose connection ?
    My experience is, even if run below maximum, connections run at considerable power for long
    intervals every day will have enough heat/cool cycling to eventually work loose what started as
    tight connections.

    After burning through a DC and an AC connection in a couple years, I am doing a complete
    mechanical check of all connections twice a year. Already found one that might have been
    headed for failure. And fairly often do thermal checks (hand and gauge) for any hot spots
    at the end of a long power interval. I haven't had any MC4 problems yet, but a hot one
    would cause immediate replacement of both halves. good luck, Bruce Roe

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    • squelch
      Junior Member
      • Aug 2015
      • 11

      #17
      Originally posted by SunEagle
      Is there any reason why there are 2 wires connected at the bottom of the first 2 fuse holders and only one wire on the other fuse holders?

      Just thinking that besides a loose connection you might have exceeded the amp rating of that fuse holder.
      they are jumper conductors to connect them in parallem, i think we should request that to our installer to replace it with flat bus bar like what i saw in the combiner bix on the net

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