[RE-wrenches] SolarEdge Has Gone Too Far

[Jason Szumlanski]

The Midnite AIO has an APSmart transmitter built in. I will probably use
that going forward for off-grid systems that require RSD.

I never regretted sticking with Enphase, even after the early failures, but
to be fair, my business hadn't ramped up much until the M250 came out, so I
didn't have a ton of M190s out there. I happen to have forty M215 on my
home with only one failure since installation!

SolarEdge announced the stoppage of HDWave returns a while back, and now we
have a graveyard of them that we are wondering how to address.
Unfortunately, we have had to take quite a few to the local landfill, as we
don't have dedicated e-waste here that I can find. I do think they separate
it first because we have a waste to energy incinerator here. I'm not really
sure how they deal with this type of waste, sadly.

Jason



On Wed, Feb 19, 2025, 6:31 PM Tyrone Houck <tyronehouck at gmail.com> wrote:

> Anybody got any recommendations for grid tied inverters especially ones
> that work with APSmart? I'm seeing a serious need for alternatives and not
> sure if I'm ready to go all in with enphase yet as I still have customers
> out there who got burnt from their early years and lack of compatability
> and solutions for their early generation systems. We've done solaredge for
> years and after the last round of outages here I've been doing service
> calls all week...noticing they aren't sending return labels for HDWave
> inverters anymore isn't a promising prospect..
>
> Tyrone Houck
> Oregon Solarworks LLC
> CCB #204937 LRT #076
> 541-787-1366
> tyrone at oregonsolarworks.com
>
>
>
> On Wed, Feb 19, 2025, 3:20 PM Jason Szumlanski via RE-wrenches <
> re-wrenches at lists.re-wrenches.org> wrote:
>
>> I just wrote a scathing blog post, notified my staff not to take on new
>> SolarEdge service clients, and blasted out messages and DMs on social media
>> about this despicable new move by SolarEdge. Imagine being one of the many
>> system owners impacted by solar contractors going out of business, only to
>> find out that the manufacturer of your equipment wants to charge you to
>> have a new willing contractor authorized to monitor and service your system.
>>
>> By contrast, Enphase owners can have as many contractors monitor their
>> systems as they want, and they can initiate it themselves and for free, 24
>> hours a day without delay.
>>
>> Jason Szumlanski
>> Principal Solar Designer | Florida Solar Design Group
>> NABCEP Certified Solar Professional (PVIP)
>> Florida State Certified Solar Contractor CVC56956
>> Florida Certified Electrical Contractor EC13013208
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Feb 19, 2025 at 4:22 PM Jason Szumlanski <
>> jason at floridasolardesigngroup.com> wrote:
>>
>>> When I fill out the online form to transfer an existing SolarEdge system
>>> to my company for monitoring, the site now takes me to a payment form
>>> demanding $99 to transfer the site monitoring.
>>>
>>> I have been told that as of 2/17/2025, SolarEdge has a new policy, and
>>> now changes for transferring a site to a new installer.
>>>
>>> WOW. Nobody wants to touch their hardware around here, and I must be the
>>> last one because SolarEdge tech support is literally giving customers my
>>> name when they can't find help.
>>>
>>> SolarEdge is done. Dead to me. They can find someone else to cover their
>>> warranty obligations.
>>>
>>> Jason Szumlanski
>>> Florida Solar Desing Group
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
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