To all wrench's installing or have installed this module, I would recommend
checking the factory jumper in the j-box, I found several panels that had
improper crimping on this jumper. In many cases the wire slid out of the lug
with little or no effort at all.
Carl
HansenSun Electric
On Jun 7, 2010, at 8:41:58 PM, Philip Boutelle
philboute...@gmail.com wrote:
I'd be curious to hear what anyone else has experienced with eGuage
Thanks Phillip and Wrenches,
I will give the eGuage a shot, thanks.
Don
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I have a warrantee issue with an Astropower 120, from what I've read it
seems GE bought them out. Does anyone have contact info at hand for GE ?
The panel is showing two burn marks on the backing at the point of two
adjacent solder joints on one cell.
Carl,
HansenSun Electric
Carl,
There was a thread here about this when GE first bought out the assets
of Astropower. As I recall, GE didn't take on the liabilities and
provides no warranty coverage on AP120s.
I would hope to hear that I'm wrong about this, as we installed some
AP120s too, but I haven't seen anything
Carl,
Here's an excerpt from a news release that went out in late-December:
Motech Industries Inc. (6244. TW) has signed an agreement to acquire GE
Energy¹s (NYSE: GE) Delaware solar module assembly operation. The plant,
which is located in Newark, Delaware assembles crystalline silicon based
Carl and David,
Of course this means nothing related to the AstroPower warranty. The lawyers
at GE Energy were very careful to wait until AstroPower was officially dead
before they bought the Equipment to make modules from them. There is no
warranty--even though they are materially identical to
Has anyone been chronicling the curious morphological progressions of PV
module manufacturers over the years? I'd be curious to know how that has
flowed, and maybe why precisely. From my current distant remove from all
this action what I see is endless revolving doors or brand new doors
CA Wrenches,
What does a PV system in a hot, smoggy or dusty area of California
actually produce, in kWh/kWp/year? Not an ideal system that is washed
every month, but real-world, average system figures, verified by a
production meter.
Thanks,
-Kelly
Kelly Keilwitz, P.E.
Whidbey Sun Wind
Fellow Wrenches,
Is there any variation in the business model of _any_ other takeover of
now defunct module manufacturers? e.g.. Siemens - Shell - SolarWorld?
I was recently at one of the solar industries current profit centers, dba
training, which featured, among others, ET Solar (single and
Fellow Wrenches,
I'm still interested if _any_ takeover manufacturer has ever supported the
previous warranty.
In regards to the local ET Solar presentation, and a follow up phone call to
their California location, I have misstated that there is _any_ warranty
once ET goes bust. (Evidently,
Hello Jim,
Astropower's evolution is characteristic of some of the changes that happen
to PV manufacturers, but Astropower's legal problems are not typical. Some
very talented people worked at Astropower. They made good solar cells and
modules.
The company had it heyday. See
1433 kWh/kW/year
20 each Siemens SP75 single crystal silicon solar modules
Array mounted 6 inches above comp shingle roof
Array azimuth 205 degrees; tilt 18 degrees
1 each SMA SWR2100U inverter
Culver City, 5 miles north of LAX and 5 miles east of Pacific Ocean
Low to medium air quality but
BP replaced all 12 of my underperforming Solarex MSX64s under warranty
around 2002.
Allan Sindelar
Allan@positiveenergysolar.com
NABCEP Certified Photovoltaic Installer
EE98J Journeyman Electrician
Positive Energy, Inc.
3201 Calle Marie
Santa Fe, New Mexico 87507
505 424-1112
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