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To: Doren who wrote (10256)	3/10/2011 4:22:26 PM
From: Eric	Respond to of 16955

Doren It looks like inverters are going to increasingly use microprocessor. However they don't need big boys. The microprocessors they use are small, pretty generic and dirt cheap. The operating system/application are small. Probably a basic UNIX kernel and a small dedicated application. Virtually all inverters over about one Kilowatt in size have dedicated microprocessors and dedicated proprietary communications busses to communicate with other devices with the potential to be controlled from a remote location. That's been increasingly common since just after 2000. There are lots of flavors in the communication busses. A number of them are custom and will not handshake outside of their system design. SMA won't talk to Xantrex which won't talk to Outback Power for example. We don't want some kid hacking into a large system and causing kayos! Today's inverters are actually very smart. In the end there will be lots of winners in the long run. No one company is going to control the industry anytime soon. After all there are a lot of different cars in the world that do the same thing. Get you from point A to point B.