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<DIV>Our company cannot survive without selling an entire system. When we help the unqualified and untrained we legitimize unsubstantiated pv businesses. We get a dozen phone calls a month from folks wanting us to install their systems. It is a rat hole and we have learned that not only are such ventures unprofitable, they are fraught with poor designs and a plethora of other hassles. This whole thing reminds me of the Carter solar Gold Rush where, sure, a bunch of systems were installed, but look at the damage it did to the industry.</DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face="comic sans ms"><STRONG>than too big all the Year after."</STRONG></FONT></DIV><BR><BR>--- On <B>Fri, 1/28/11, Joel Davidson <I><joel.davidson@sbcglobal.net></I></B> wrote:<BR>
<BLOCKQUOTE style="BORDER-LEFT: rgb(16,16,255) 2px solid; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px"><BR>From: Joel Davidson <joel.davidson@sbcglobal.net><BR>Subject: Re: [RE-wrenches] Roofers installing solar = creative, new installation methods<BR>To: "RE-wrenches" <re-wrenches@lists.re-wrenches.org><BR>Date: Friday, January 28, 2011, 7:06 AM<BR><BR>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>You're missing a business opportunity. Instead of complaining about roofers' bad work and competition, show the company owners photos of their screw-ups and your quality work. Tell him that he is a risk. Then offer to do their design and electrical installation (let them do the sales, roofing, and grunt work).</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Joel Davidson</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial; BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4"><B>From:</B> <A title=warren@wind-sun.com href="http://us.mc318.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=warren@wind-sun.com" rel=nofollow target=_blank ymailto="mailto:warren@wind-sun.com">Warren Lauzon</A> </DIV>
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<DIV>We have seen a lot of the roofing companies nibbling around the edges of solar installs lately. I have only seen a couple of installs personally, and they were far from what I would call professional or reliable. Not quite as bad as your example, but in one case they had used Romex to run the wiring down to the inverter, and not in conduit.</DIV>
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<DIV><B>From:</B> <A title=nicksoleilsolar@yahoo.com href="http://us.mc318.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=nicksoleilsolar@yahoo.com" rel=nofollow target=_blank ymailto="mailto:nicksoleilsolar@yahoo.com">Nick Soleil</A> </DIV>
<DIV><B>Sent:</B> Thursday, January 27, 2011 8:11 PM</DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT-FAMILY: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; FONT-SIZE: 12pt">Hi wrenches:<BR> Have you noticed that roofing companies have recently been trying to sell solar? One company thought of something that I had never considered. Listen to this neat story.<BR> I was servicing a job today, where a roofing company recently removed and re-installed a PV array on a 12 degree sloped roof. The funny thing is that the roofer didn't want to penetrate his new roof, so he and the customer decided to leave the panels sitting on the composition roof without any attachments to the structure. They didn't think it was necessary! <BR> Shortly afterward, the array slid down the roof, and a MultiContact connector came unplugged. The customer noticed that his system was not operating, and called us to the site. <BR>
<DIV> </DIV>Nick Soleil<BR>Project Manager<BR>Advanced Alternative Energy Solutions, LLC<BR>PO Box 657<BR>Petaluma, CA 94953<BR>Cell: 707-321-2937<BR>Office: 707-789-9537<BR>Fax: 707-769-9037
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