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

[Kirk Herander]

I have over 100 SE inverters in the field over the last 7 years and the failure rate is minimal. And NO 181/183 errors. I am just lucky???

I could trash SE on other subjects, but that's not the subject of this thread.
On 7/22/2020 8:32:39 PM, Brett Bartmasser <brettbartmasser at gmail.com> wrote:
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 [mailto:scot.arey at solarcentex.com]> wrote:

Time has finally come to move on from SolarEdge.
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.
We have had 24 total RMAs at quick count and it is eating into our credibility.
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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