[RE-wrenches] Equipment shortages, long lead times?

The Office of Tom Duffy tom at thesolar.biz
Sat Nov 21 14:30:22 PST 2009


Yes. Xantrex, Outback and Apollo, but I think Apollo is shipping as of last
week. For instance we have bought all the Xantrex, OutBack and Apollo Charge
Controllers we could find, because of the long lead times from The
Manufacturers.

  Tom Duffy
  Systems Design Engineer

     tom at thesolar.biz
       575-539-2111 X 301

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Subject: [RE-wrenches] Equipment shortages, long lead times?

Is anyone else starting to see a few equipment shortages and/or long to very

long lead times on equipment, especially inverters and other BOS items? 
Xantrex has always been famous for that, but we are also seeing it in a few 
other areas, such as Fronius. So far, panels still seem to be in vast 
oversupply. Many, but not all, of the shortages seem to be for items mfg'd 
in China so far. We even got hit with an 8-10 week backorder on a common 
Square-D pressure switch.

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