<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><div><div>On Jun 26, 2012, at 2:59 PM, SunHarvest wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; "><div bgcolor="#ffffff" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><font size="2" face="Arial">The KC120's turned out to be faulty. Kyocera replaced all 12 of the bad KC120's with refurbished KC120's and requested an invoice for my labor to complete the exchange. I tested the new and old modules side by side and both registered the same voltage and amperage. It's only under load when the power failure is apparent. This is why I initially ruled out the modules as being the problem. Thanks for all your help wrenchers!</font></div><div><font size="2" face="Arial"></font> </div><div><font size="2" face="Arial">Eric Stikes<br>Owner<br></font></div></div></span></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Eric, You might want to look at the module label and confirm output.</div><div><br></div>Just this Monday I opened an unused, 3 year old box of two of those replacement Kyocera 120-1Rs and while doing a x v discovered it was only 102 watts. </div><div><br></div><div>I arranged the replacement of 10 these 3 years ago and don't think I actually looked then, What more need ye know than KC120 right? But suspect I had the wool pulled over my eyes by Kyocera. A net loss of replacement watts.</div><div><br></div><div>Even though Kyocera will replace them with pleasure, it seems strange for them to allow a whole class of customers to absorb the cost of faulty modules with prematurely failed batteries and/or excess generator use, so that Kyocera can absorb the cost slowly over years while thousands of customers pay the consequence$ until the swap happens.<br></div><div>Why not a recall? $$$ of course.</div><div><br></div><div>Then the pleasantly supplied replacements come in 15% smaller. </div><div><br></div><div>Ouch</div><div><br></div><div>Anyone else out there with 120-1R Kyocera modules that label 6.08 I-pk and 16.8V-pk. Kyocera needs to "amp up" the replacements in my view.</div><div>-</div><div><div>Wallace Stahle</div><div>Future Electric Energy Co</div><div>P O Box 236</div><div>Willits, CA 95490</div><div><a href="mailto:future@pacific.net">future@pacific.net</a></div><div>CA Lic.# C10-762093</div><div>707-459-0474</div></div><div><br></div></div></body></html>