Matt,

Colonel Ken and I are not throwing lightning bolts at each other. I totally agree with him. I just wanted to point out that there are other losses in the system that simply installing a combiner will not take care of in a one wire system conversion. These could be exacerbated as the amount of current rises. The combiner will take the major loss which is the diode drop of an isolator.

I learned a long time ago not to argue with the Colonel.