[RE-wrenches] Shell Solar Warranty?

[Ray Walters]

Were you able to do a warranty replacement, or did you just replace them 
outside the warranty?

Thanks,

Ray

On 7/15/2026 12:05 PM, Todd Cory via RE-wrenches wrote:
>
> 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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