<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Are they missing the fact that the inverters used for battery backup RE applications are also high output sophisticated battery chargers and transfer switches all built into one integrated unit intended to work together with available monitoring and coordination with charge controllers?</div>
<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">I normally want to tell people "good luck," too, but I've found that pretty much everyone is an engineer these days and they must sleep at Holiday Inn Express every night. I have found myself providing lengthy rebuttal emails routinely. I take it on a case-by-case basis, and I put a professional salesperson between me and the customer. </div>
<br><br>J<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;display:inline">ason Szumlanski</div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;display:inline">Fafco Solar</div></div>
<div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Aug 9, 2013 at 12:55 PM, Drake <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:drake.chamberlin@redwoodalliance.org" target="_blank">drake.chamberlin@redwoodalliance.org</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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At 11:08 AM 8/9/2013, you wrote:<br><br>
<blockquote type="cite">Unless they are a continuing
customer or a friend, I would be inclined to tell them good luck.
<br><br>
PLEASE call someone else, asap!</blockquote>
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This is happening with continuing customers that are friends. What is
needed are some solid technical reasons to give them, but do to my lack
of experience with this stuff I have no data.<br><br>
With so much being made in China now days, it is hard to argue
convincingly that an item is low quality because it was made there. I
argue that we get what we pay for, but some hard data is needed.<br><br>
Can we say that these inverters are:
</p><ul>
<li>less reliable?
</li><li>the true sine wave, waveform is not really so good?
</li><li>these units will burn their house down?
</li></ul>When they can buy 4 or 5 of these for the price of a name brand sine
wave inverter, they could keep a spare unit on hand. It would be good to
have some hard data as to why they should get an Outback or a
Magnum.<br><br>
Thanks,<br><br>
Drake</div></blockquote></div><br></div></div>