[RE-wrenches] Shell Solar Warranty?

[Jerry Shafer]

Wrenches,
Warranty well that may be difficult  but l recall the junction box held
diodes that can fail, look there first, easy to tell, they like the seimens
boxes behind the modules, these can be repaired/replaced.  You can also
look for cigarette burns on the back side, an indication of tracing failure
not repairable
Fun times


On Wed, Jul 15, 2026, 1:08 PM Todd Cory via RE-wrenches <
re-wrenches at lists.re-wrenches.org> wrote:

> I just replaced them with new modules which increased the output by 50%!
>
> On 15 July 2026 20:31:46 Ray Walters via RE-wrenches <
> re-wrenches at lists.re-wrenches.org> wrote:
>
>> 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
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>> On Wednesday, July 15, 2026 10:47am, "Ray Walters via RE-wrenches"
>> <re-wrenches at lists.re-wrenches.org> <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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