Hi Glenn,
Most Warranty spell out their exemptions that include any damage for objects. I
just glanced at the Sanyo warranty and found they even mention Golf Balls and
hail stones!
• Damage caused by abuse, neglect, vandalism, accident, animals or
insects, or external stress, such as, but not limited to, stepping on Product,
impacts from falling objects such as tools, golf balls, rocks, hailstones, or
other debris
Larry
On Oct 9, 2015, at 2:53 PM, Glenn Burt <[email protected]> wrote:
All of which begs the question, has anyone successfully gotten a warranty claim
for the damage if it would seem that the damage was inflicted to a lesser
degree than product testing seems to indicate?
Sincerely,
Glenn Burt
Sent from my 'smart' phone so please excuse grammar and typos.
From: Jerry Shafer
Sent: 10/9/2015 15:47
To: RE-wrenches
Subject: Re: [RE-wrenches] Hailstorm damage
Wrenches
We have modules next to a driving range at a golf course and we find golf balls
around the arrays regularly and do find broken modules from time to time
Jerry
On Oct 9, 2015 4:52 AM, "Jason Szumlanski" <[email protected]>
wrote:
Not to hijack the thread, but the timing is perfect for another related
question I had. A client approached me about putting solar panels on a golf
course maintenance building. The pitch is 2 in 12 and the location is
supposedly not in the typical direction/are where golf balls are likely to be
hit (most likely because I don't have a membership there). The question will
naturally come up about golf ball strikes. We have several systems along
fairways on residences and have not had any reported issues. Does anyone else
have systems in the cross-hairs of errant golf balls? If so, any feedback on
resistance to strikes?
Jason Szumlanski
Florida Solar Design Group
On Fri, Oct 9, 2015 at 1:47 AM, Allan Sindelar <[email protected]> wrote:
Wrenches,
From time to time I see posts about hail damage. The message below was sent
internally among Positive Energy's three offices, and I thought worth sharing
here.
Allan, Sindelar Solar
-------- Forwarded Message --------
Subject: Big hailstorm in LC
Date: Tue, 6 Oct 2015 08:04:14 -0600
Hi all,
We had a big hail storm in Las Cruces on Saturday. Because so many potential
clients ask about how solar panels hold up to hail, I thought that I would
share a bit of what we found.
The hail that was falling was about golf ball sized. I have seen a picture of
a hailstone next to a tape measure that was about an inch and a half in
diameter. On the install that we started yesterday, all of the customer's
skylights (about 6) were busted out; not just cracked, but with big holes
punched through them. Several of our clients called to tell us that their
skylights were destroyed, but their solar panels were undamaged. We went up
onto roofs for four of our clients that are out of town and found no damage to
the PV arrays.
We have only one report of a damaged panel, which you can see in the attached
photos. This was a unique installation, because the modules are mounted flat
on a nominally flat roof, so they have about two degrees of pitch. That means
that the hailstones hit almost perpendicular, so with more force. Even at this
installation, only one 1 out of 15 modules was damaged. This is a Suntech
module.
All in all, our modules fared well. To my knowledge, this is only the second
time that a module installed by Positive Energy has been damaged by hail. The
first time was in Taos a few years ago.
Cheers,
Westbrock
---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Mon, Oct 5, 2015 at 7:19 PM
Subject: Broken Panel
Here is what the panel looks like! It is just like safety glass, the entire
panel is shattered.
Bob
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