Jibril, we've also had similar damage on the plains of Kansas, with only one broken Canadian Solar module, but many with linear microfractures. I don't know that these were from impact, manufacturing imperfections, or lightening. Only a few have fractures seem to radiate from a central impact point. It does make you wonder about those advertising videos of wet "hail" being fired at panels. Sure they didn't smash but what other damage is likely? I have done thermal imaging of these areas and both edges of a microfracture appear to be at the same temperature so perhaps there isn't increased resistance.
Bill Dorsett Manhattan, KS -----Original Message----- From: RE-wrenches <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Maverick Brown Sent: Friday, June 14, 2019 3:04 PM To: RE-wrenches <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [RE-wrenches] Hail Damage insurance claim Keywords “their engineers”. He’ll need his own engineers and some lawyers. Thank you, Maverick > On Jun 14, 2019, at 2:31 PM, James Jibril Gustafson <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Hello Climate Heroes, > > I have a friend with a large ground-mounted system composed Canadian solar > modules and Fronius inverters. Here on the front range of Colorado we have > had increasingly damaging and frequent hail storms. He noticed that some of > his modules had broken glass, obviously from hail stones. Many others had > cracked cells and hot spots, which also appear to be hail related. > > He asked his insurance company to take a look, and they sent an engineering > firm to inspect. Their report came back saying that only the 3 modules with > broken glass would be covered for hail, and that the other 139 modules would > not be covered. > > Has any one else dealt with a similar situation, and/or have hard evidence > that hail can damage a module without breaking the glass? Any help would be > greatly appreciated. > > Thanks, > > Jibril > Tava Solar LLC > > > _______________________________________________ > List sponsored by Redwood Alliance > > List Address: [email protected] > > Change listserver email address & settings: > http://lists.re-wrenches.org/options.cgi/re-wrenches-re-wrenches.org > > List-Archive: > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.html > > List rules & etiquette: > www.re-wrenches.org/etiquette.htm > > Check out or update participant bios: > www.members.re-wrenches.org > _______________________________________________ List sponsored by Redwood Alliance List Address: [email protected] Change listserver email address & settings: http://lists.re-wrenches.org/options.cgi/re-wrenches-re-wrenches.org List-Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.html List rules & etiquette: www.re-wrenches.org/etiquette.htm Check out or update participant bios: www.members.re-wrenches.org _______________________________________________ List sponsored by Redwood Alliance List Address: [email protected] Change listserver email address & settings: http://lists.re-wrenches.org/options.cgi/re-wrenches-re-wrenches.org List-Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.html List rules & etiquette: www.re-wrenches.org/etiquette.htm Check out or update participant bios: www.members.re-wrenches.org
