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<p class="MsoNormal">Hello Wrenches,<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Any experience successfully submitting a performance warranty claim with SunPower on their solar modules? Right now, in order to Provide what they are asking for, we will likely spend more time/money testing to their satisfaction than it
would cost for us to likely buy new modules and just replace the array.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Anybody have a similar experience? Or suggestions on how to deal with Sunpower?<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Don’t want to bog this down with all the details but suffice to say we I-V traced the array at the string level as a sanity check (7-10 % lower than anticipated performance), and a random selection of individual modules as well and we are
seeing roughly 8% lower performance than expected given the array age and listed performance warranty. (STC corrected I-V trace is 8% lower than it should be for an 8 year old solar module from SunPower)<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">With Regards,<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Merriweather">Danny Young<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Merriweather">NABCEP PV Installation Professional #031508-90<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Merriweather">Engineering Team Lead<br>
Solar Energy Solutions<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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