<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div></div><div>Just got this thread. Mac and Larry are correct. As an old timer, this one example of great customer support (specifically understanding that installing dealers are their true customers) has given me cause to respect Kyocera and sell and approve them to my customer base. </div><div><br></div><div>Allan Sindelar, Sindelar Solar</div><div><br>On Jul 2, 2016, at 3:54 PM, Starlight Solar Power Systems <<a href="mailto:larry@starlightsolar.com">larry@starlightsolar.com</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii">The dates of the defective KC-120-1 (and KC-80-1) are from late 1998 to Dec. 2002. Any modules in the date period will be replaced at no cost by Kyocera. Talk about amazing commitment to the customer, these modules only had a 1 year defect warranty. 15 years later and they are still replacing them with remanufactured units. <div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Bill, the typical failure is Voc of about 10 volts. However, the failure can be intermittent. For this reason, any modules in the date period should be replaced even though they appear to test OK.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div apple-content-edited="true" class=""><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Larry Crutcher<br class="">Starlight Solar Power Systems<br class=""></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><br class=""></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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<br class=""><div><div class="">On Jul 2, 2016, at 3:17 PM, Mac Lewis <<a href="mailto:maclewis1@gmail.com" class="">maclewis1@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><p dir="ltr" class="">Kyocera had a batch of 120s and 85s that had bad solder connections from a certain year. I'm not remembering the year at the moment but we are still finding them.</p><p dir="ltr" class="">Kyocera has been really amazing about honoring the warranty.</p>
<div class="gmail_extra"><br class=""><div class="gmail_quote">On Jul 2, 2016 2:52 PM, "Jerry Shafer" <<a href="mailto:jerrysgarage01@gmail.com" target="_blank" class="">jerrysgarage01@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution" class=""><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><p dir="ltr" class="">Wrenches<br class="">
Bypass diods fail and may short <br class="">
Jerry</p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Jul 2, 2016 1:49 PM, "frenergy" <<a href="mailto:frenergy@psln.com" target="_blank" class="">frenergy@psln.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution" class=""><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">I just came upon a small off-grid system: 12 volt, 4, Kyo 120's (I,mppt= 7.1A; Voc = 21.7 or so), Trace C40 with display, etc. The combiner has fuses for each PV/landing. At noon, output of the array is 10.5 amps. Clamping the 4 pvs I get 5.5 amps on 2 PVs and 0.0 on 2 others. I disconnect leads from terminals in PV j-box of the 'dead' PVs and I get Voc=18.5 (pretty hot day) and Isc= 6 amps. However when I reconnect these same PVs to the combiner there is no change in combined amps. Fronts and backs of PVs look good, no burns, browns, bubbles in backsheet, under the glass looks fine, its all good. Inside the J-boxes look perfect/new.<br class="">
Ideas?<br class="">
Thx,<br class="">
Bill<br class="">
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Feather River Solar Electric<br class="">
Bill Battagin, Owner<br class="">
4291 Nelson St.<br class="">
Taylorsville, CA 95983<br class="">
<a href="tel:530.284.7849" value="+15302847849" target="_blank" class="">530.284.7849</a><br class="">
CA Lic 874049<br class="">
<a href="http://www.frenergy.net/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank" class="">www.frenergy.net</a> <br class="">
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