[RE-wrenches] Solar Edge...continuous saga of 181/183 hardware failures...moving on to another inverter.
Kirk Herander
vtsolar at icloud.com
Thu Jul 23 18:55:15 EDT 2020
I gave up on Enphase a long time ago for the same reasons many of you are dumping on SE now. High replacement rate etc. Any of you in this biz longer than ten years knows how horrible the first several generations of Enphase was. So should I trust Enphase over SE now? Will you trust SE years from now if this board finds them acceptable again(over Enphase)? Just sayin'
On 7/23/2020 6:30:29 PM, Jason Szumlanski <jason at floridasolardesigngroup.com> wrote:
Not to sounds like a Fanboy, but Enphase in a small commercial setting is a real option. Owners love the monitoring aspect, the serviceability, the warranty, etc. There is a good safety argument to be made. Replacing micros on a flat roof is usually a cakewalk if necessary. Dealing with roof-mounted equipment shading issues makes micros a good option if optimizers are off the table.
I'm adding an 80kW Enphase IQ array to an existing M-series 70kW system very soon. Here's Phase 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EvXyGiUlALw [https://mailtrack.io/trace/link/52f0937e3a3bac7f7f321ef31e4da1975c96346e?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DEvXyGiUlALw&userId=1613865&signature=dfeb13a2c0a9ad67]
This one is 208Y/120. For 480V you're looking at a transformer, which changes the calculus.
Jason Szumlanski
Florida Solar Design Group
On Thu, Jul 23, 2020 at 5:06 PM AE Solar <autonomousenergies at gmail.com [mailto:autonomousenergies at gmail.com]> wrote:
interested to know if folks are having issues with specific models or it's all across the board? if it's all across the board, i (like jay) would be interested to know what people are moving on towards. especially for smaller commercial 3phase projects.
adam
On Thu, Jul 23, 2020 at 11:57 AM MiJo Nels <spaceshipnelson1 at gmail.com [mailto:spaceshipnelson1 at gmail.com]> wrote:
We also, have found this to be the case. Now I feel like I'm in a bad marriage with them. We consistantly wait longer than we are told for replacement product, constantly hearing the same repetitious verbiage from them "just wait a little longer, we'll be able to control your coffee maker with your inverter soon".. or the old "Q1 Q2 Q3" promises for equipment or to get thru beta testing.. .. I too. . . am "Done". . .
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From: RE-wrenches <re-wrenches-bounces at lists.re-wrenches.org [mailto:re-wrenches-bounces at lists.re-wrenches.org]> on behalf of Jay <jay.peltz at gmail.com [mailto:jay.peltz at gmail.com]>
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To: RE-wrenches <re-wrenches at lists.re-wrenches.org [mailto:re-wrenches at lists.re-wrenches.org]>
Subject: Re: [RE-wrenches] Solar Edge...continuous saga of 181/183 hardware failures...moving on to another inverter.
Hi Scot and others
I’ve heard these horror stories about SE
What is the best replacement for SE at this point?
Thanks
Jay
On Jul 23, 2020, at 5:57 AM, 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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