[RE-wrenches] Hail Damage insurance claim

[William Dorsett]

Jibril, we've also had similar damage on the plains of Kansas, with only one broken Canadian Solar module, but many with linear microfractures. I don't know that these were from impact, manufacturing imperfections, or lightening. Only a few have fractures seem to radiate from a central impact point. It does make you wonder about those advertising videos of wet "hail" being fired at panels. Sure they didn't smash but what other damage is likely? I have done thermal imaging of these areas and both edges of a microfracture appear to be at the same temperature so perhaps there isn't increased resistance. 

Bill Dorsett
Manhattan, KS

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From: RE-wrenches <re-wrenches-bounces at lists.re-wrenches.org> On Behalf Of Maverick Brown
Sent: Friday, June 14, 2019 3:04 PM
To: RE-wrenches <re-wrenches at lists.re-wrenches.org>
Subject: Re: [RE-wrenches] Hail Damage insurance claim

Keywords “their engineers”. He’ll need his own engineers and some lawyers. 

Thank you,

Maverick


> On Jun 14, 2019, at 2:31 PM, James Jibril Gustafson <djibrilfall at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Hello Climate Heroes,
> 
> I have a friend with a large ground-mounted system composed Canadian solar modules and Fronius inverters.  Here on the front range of Colorado we have had increasingly damaging and frequent hail storms. He noticed that some of his modules had broken glass, obviously from hail stones.  Many others had cracked cells and hot spots, which also appear to be hail related.  
> 
> He asked his insurance company to take a look, and they sent an engineering firm to inspect.  Their report came back saying that only the 3 modules with broken glass would be covered for hail, and that the other 139 modules would not be covered.  
> 
> Has any one else dealt with a similar situation, and/or have hard evidence that hail can damage a module without breaking the glass?  Any help would be greatly appreciated. 
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Jibril 
> Tava Solar LLC
> 
> 
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