[RE-wrenches] Sunpower connectors

[Dave Angelini Offgrid Solar]

As of July 19,2024 some say that SunPower's announcement to stop new 
leases, installations, and shipments may indicate the end of the company 
as an operating business. SunPower's stock has also dropped nearly 93% 
in the last 12 months

Ouch, fair to say the writing has been on the wall or the WallStreet 
longer than 2024.  Better get your parts soon😉

Dave Angelini Offgrid Solar
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On 2024-08-01 9:13 am, Dave Tedeyan via RE-wrenches wrote:

> Evan,
> I am not sure if this is the same issue, but I have seen a lot of arc 
> fault issues with the E20-327 modules paired with SMA inverters. Every 
> system that we have done repairs on have had the Yukita junction boxes, 
> and there were a handful of failed solder joints on the diodes in the 
> junction boxes. Sunpower is having contractors cut out the diodes and 
> install an external diode per module. The issues related to this have 
> popped up a lot in the past few years, even though the modules were 
> installed roughly around 2015-2018.
> 
> Cheers,
> Dave
> 
> On Thu, Aug 1, 2024 at 12:04 PM Evan M via RE-wrenches 
> <re-wrenches at lists.re-wrenches.org> wrote:
> 
>> Anyone happen know the make/model of connectors associated with the 
>> Sunpower cracking issues a couple years back? News stories do a good 
>> job of obscuring it.
>> 
>> https://www.pv-tech.org/sunpower-hit-by-us31-million-cracking-issue-warns-of-further-drags-on-q4-results/
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