[RE-wrenches] Solar Edge...continuous saga of 181/183 hardware failures...moving on to another inverter.

[Brett Bartmasser]

We had the exact same experience. Countless failures.

We do not use them anymore either, but I sure hope they have fixed their
issue.

On Wed, Jul 22, 2020 at 12:18 PM <scot.arey at solarcentex.com> wrote:

> Time has finally come to move on from SolarEdge.
>
>
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> Now replacing the THIRD inverter for one customer alone that has the
> infamous 181/183 hardware failure error code again.  First one replaced in
> Sept 2019. Second failure and RMA July 6th 2020, and now this third
> failure on that replacement inverter.
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> We have had 24 total RMAs at quick count and it is eating into our
> credibility.
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> Solar Edge provided a briefing to me about two months ago acknowledging
> that their manufacturing quality control issues bordered on a recall, but
> opted to stay silent and let the installers keep suffering for their
> materiel and design issues. I was advised that the batch of deficient
> inverters and their manufacture time frame meant I just needed to get
> through this summer…perhaps but not another summer ever like this.
>
>
>
> No more. Au revoir, Solar Edge.
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