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<p>Were you able to do a warranty replacement, or did you just
replace them outside the warranty?</p>
<p>Thanks,</p>
<p>Ray</p>
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had a 17 year old rack of 80 watt Shell modules fail. They
were in 4 module series strings and each string had 1 or 2
modules fail taking out the entire array.<br>
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Greetings Fellow Installers;<br>
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> I have an old system with 24 Shell SP 140 modules from
the mid 2000s<br>
> that are at 30% rated output. I have 2 questions:<br>
> 1) Has anyone else seen failures of the Shell modules?
They do not<br>
> appear to otherwise have any visible issues. I have
even older Arco and<br>
> Siemens modules that look terrible, but are still at
80% or better output.<br>
> <br>
> 2) I know that Solarworld bought Shell Solar, and that
they are now also<br>
> out of business, is there any warranty still available,
or was the 25<br>
> year warranty just blowing smoke?<br>
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> Thanks in advance for your replies,<br>
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> Ray Walters<br>
> Remote Solar<br>
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