<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Ray Johnson in Florida has done an excellent job documenting this fiasco on his blow in the article below and several other articles.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">
<br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><a href="http://www.renewableenergyworld.com/rea/blog/post/2013/04/solar-contractors-installers-beware-of-the-panel-warranty-bait-switch">http://www.renewableenergyworld.com/rea/blog/post/2013/04/solar-contractors-installers-beware-of-the-panel-warranty-bait-switch</a><br>
</div><br>W<div style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;display:inline" class="gmail_default">e lost several jobs to this company in the past due to unsustainable low competitive prices. I was sounding the alarm on this a couple of years ago - I thought they were dumping product on the market to establish their contracting/sales arm. It seems they were up to much more than that.</div>
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<p style="margin:0px"><span style="color:rgb(128,128,128)"><strong>Jason Szumlanski</strong></span></p><p style="margin:0px"><span style="color:rgb(128,128,128)"><em>Fafco Solar</em></span><span style="color:rgb(128,128,128)"><span><span style="text-decoration:underline"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,255)"><br>
</span></span></span></span></p></div></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Apr 16, 2013 at 11:16 AM, Nik Ponzio <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:nponzio@buildingenergyus.com" target="_blank">nponzio@buildingenergyus.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><a href="http://www.ul.com/global/eng/pages/newsroom/publicnotices/detail/index.jsp?cpath=/global/eng/pages/newsroom/publicnotices/detail/data/ul-warns-of-counterfeit-ul-mark-on-photovoltaic_20130415070000.xml" target="_blank">http://www.ul.com/global/eng/pages/newsroom/publicnotices/detail/index.jsp?cpath=/global/eng/pages/newsroom/publicnotices/detail/data/ul-warns-of-counterfeit-ul-mark-on-photovoltaic_20130415070000.xml</a><br>
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<h1 style="margin:0px;padding:0px 0px 15px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-size:22px;vertical-align:baseline;line-height:normal;width:680px;color:rgb(0,1,0)">UL warns of counterfeit UL Mark on photovoltaic panels (Release 13PN-20)</h1>
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<b>NORTHBROOK, IL - April 15, 2013 -</b>The following is a notification from UL to Authorities Having Jurisdiction, distributors, installers and users that the photovoltaic panels identified below bear counterfeit UL Marks for the United States and Canada . The photovoltaic (solar) panels have not been evaluated by UL to the appropriate Standards for Safety and it is unknown if these photovoltaic panels comply with UL's safety requirements for the United States or Canada. </p>
<p style="margin:0px 0px 10px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-size:12px;vertical-align:baseline;line-height:18px"><b>Name of Product:</b> </p><p style="margin:0px 0px 10px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-size:12px;vertical-align:baseline;line-height:18px">
ASP - Advanced Solar Photonics (also known as Bluechip Energy)<br>Models AP-240PK, AP-245MK and ASP-390M<br><br>Note that ASP is a tradename for the parent company Bluechip Energy LLC</p><p style="margin:0px 0px 10px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-size:12px;vertical-align:baseline;line-height:18px">
<b>Identification: </b><i>On the product:</i>The products bear a counterfeit UL Mark and one of the markings shown below:</p><p style="margin:0px 0px 10px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-size:12px;vertical-align:baseline;line-height:18px">
<img style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-style:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline"></p>
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<p style="margin:0px 0px 10px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-size:12px;vertical-align:baseline;line-height:18px"><img style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-style:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline"></p>
<p style="margin:0px 0px 10px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-size:12px;vertical-align:baseline;line-height:18px">Note that the labels include additional electrical rating information, but the values may differ from that shown in the photographs below.</p>
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<b>Photos of Product:</b></p><p style="margin:0px 0px 10px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-size:12px;vertical-align:baseline;line-height:18px"><b> Photo of typical installation</b></p>
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<p style="margin:0px 0px 10px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-size:12px;vertical-align:baseline;line-height:18px"><b>Counterfeit nameplate from Model AP-240PK</b></p><p style="margin:0px 0px 10px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-size:12px;vertical-align:baseline;line-height:18px">
<img style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-style:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline"></p>
<p style="margin:0px 0px 10px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-size:12px;vertical-align:baseline;line-height:18px">The nameplate label for Model AP-245MK is identical to the label above except for Model number and electrical ratings.</p>
<p style="margin:0px 0px 10px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-size:12px;vertical-align:baseline;line-height:18px"><strong style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-weight:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline"></strong></p>
<p style="margin:0px 0px 10px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-size:12px;vertical-align:baseline;line-height:18px"><strong style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-weight:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline">Counterfeit nameplate from Model ASP-390M</strong></p>
<p style="margin:0px 0px 10px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-size:12px;vertical-align:baseline;line-height:18px"><b><img style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-weight:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline"></b></p>
<p style="margin:0px 0px 10px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-size:12px;vertical-align:baseline;line-height:18px"><b>Sold at: </b>Known to be sold by SunWorks Solar and may be sold by other distributors</p></div>
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