[RE-wrenches] Shell Solar Warranty?

[toddcory at finestplanet.com]

I had a 17 year old rack of 80 watt Shell modules fail. They were in 4 module series strings and each string had 1 or 2 modules fail taking out the entire array.

Todd



 
 
On Wednesday, July 15, 2026 10:47am, "Ray Walters via RE-wrenches" <re-wrenches at lists.re-wrenches.org> said:



> Greetings Fellow Installers;
> 
> I have an old system with 24 Shell SP 140 modules from the mid 2000s
> that are at 30% rated output.  I have 2 questions:
> 1) Has anyone else seen failures of the Shell modules?  They do not
> appear to otherwise have any visible issues.  I have even older Arco and
> Siemens modules that look terrible, but are still at 80% or better output.
> 
> 2) I know that Solarworld bought Shell Solar, and that they are now also
> out of business, is there any warranty still available, or was the 25
> year warranty just blowing smoke?
> 
> Thanks in advance for your replies,
> 
> Ray Walters
> Remote Solar
> 
> 
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