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<p>One thing I can say: trouble shooting problems over the phone
has its limitations. I had a customer issue with a system we
hadn't installed that was quite vexing. Turned out to be a loose
main DC connection to the inverter. Bizarre behavior as the
connection heated up and the resistance varied.<br>
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<p>Ray Walters<br>
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<p>On 9/30/2022 6:57 AM, Jay via RE-wrenches wrote:<br>
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<div dir="ltr">Hi all and thanks for the input. </div>
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<div dir="ltr">I guess he’s just been unlucky with the problems (
firmware upgrade switching to 50hz) and possibly just some
random bad hardware. </div>
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<div dir="ltr">In regards to your thoughts of a install issue, he
has spent a lot of time with sol ark reviewing everything.
Loads, wiring, they have been monitoring all the data, photos,
video etc with everything coming up correctly installed, wired,
and loads. </div>
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<div dir="ltr">this system is an upgrade for an older XW ( 6kw
units) system which worked fine. The customer wanted better
monitoring, more kw, expansion capabilities and newer tech. </div>
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<div dir="ltr">Weird</div>
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<blockquote type="cite">On Sep 29, 2022, at 9:50 PM, pieter
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<p class="MsoNormal">We have dozens of Solark based installs
and have had excellent results. All of our system have
multiple parallel Solark inverters and have operated with
out issues. On the rare occasion that we had commissioning
questions our experience with Solark technical support has
been outstanding, they have by far the best technical
support in the industry. Although Solark helped design the
system in question I suspect that there must be some finer
points that were not shared with Solark, a load side
wiring problem or perhaps an installation error that is
causing the repeated failures. I suggest that your friend
gets a fresh set of eyes on the system and look for that
oversite we have all made and just can’t seem to see it on
our own.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Pieter Huebner<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Off Grid Enterprises<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>From:</b> RE-wrenches
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<b>On Behalf Of </b>Jerry Shafer via RE-wrenches<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Thursday, September 29, 2022 10:25 AM<br>
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<b>Subject:</b> Re: [RE-wrenches] sol ark reliability
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<p class="MsoNormal">Solark issues, I have them living
off grid, 3 phase and grid tied back up, both AC and
DC coupled with only one intermittent comms issue,
does not seem to have any more issues than OB and less
than Schnieder, all are connected to Fortress 18.5's
or Blue Planet BMS interface seems hardy, <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Would be good to know what issues
he is having to accurately help<o:p></o:p></p>
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All,<br>
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I’ve got a question about how many folks are having
issues with sol-ark products?<br>
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the reason i ask is that i’ve got a friend, a good
competent installer ( well versed in OB, Schneider,
magnum) who’s had continuing nightmares with them.<br>
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he’s got 2 systems each on is a stacked pair of 12kw
units, both offgrid.<br>
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each system was designed by sol-ark, meaning the
design was approved by them for the loads/solar etc.<br>
<br>
He’s been through 7 MCU swaps. <br>
He’s been through a field call required because the
over the air firmware update caused the inverters to
go into 50hz and for some reason that isn’t fixable
via the web.<br>
He had an inverter that didn’t work correctly out of
the box. They charged him $2500 deposit for a
replacement.<br>
<br>
Then they charged him $1500 to fix the inverter he
sent back under warranty. Thats right $1500 to fix a
warranty which they agreed was a warranty issue.<br>
Hes not going to pay but this $1500 has been going on
a while. <br>
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The inverter they sent to replace the broken one had a
older MCU firmware so wouldn’t stack and it took tech
support way to long to figure that out then they had
to send him a new MCU…...<br>
<br>
And the list goes on.<br>
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But Im asking, is this poor guy just an anomaly or
will anyone else chime in about issues?,<br>
<br>
Because at this point I have no desire to install one
given his experiences<br>
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Jay<br>
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