| Having consulted for EG4 all I can say is you are all way off in your conjectures. James and his team have the industry’s best interests at heart.
Anymore is only appropriate to discuss off list. Conjecture without direct knowledge often results in unnecessary harm and projection of our fear rather than useful sense making.
I believe the List has ethical standards that we should follow here.
May we all work together to continue to build on all the great cooperative work we’ve done to uplift the solar industry over the years.
Best
Jeff Clearwater Village Power Design Since 1996
Sent from my iPhone On Aug 4, 2025, at 11:58 AM, William Miller via RE-wrenches <[email protected]> wrote:
Friends: One explanation is possibly that James Showalter wants to quietly remove a well-respected, competing product from the market. William PS: It is more than a bit off-putting that EG4 chose to post a note kissing up to DJT. I’m suddenly way less anxious to give EG4 a try. WM From: RE-wrenches [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Maverick Brown via RE-wrenches
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Subject: Re: [RE-wrenches] OUTBACK power James Showalter Founder of EG4 Electronics, Signature Solar and partner in buying Outback from Alpha / Entersys. He ran a solar installation business and then switched gears. Thank you, Maverick Brown
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512-460-9825 On Aug 4, 2025, at 1:21 PM, Chris Schaefer via RE-wrenches <[email protected]> wrote: Who is James ( I assume a partner of Signature Solar) and what is his background? I checked on a few websites and some do have some items. I wonder if they bought it for the military contracts and the retail they don’t really care about. Because EG4 and signature solar and big battery all know how to market and sell and make new good products. One thing I heard was they bought it to sell lithium batteries to legacy Outback people. I guess that they would make some changes to the mate to communicate with their batteries. Which made sense maybe? Hopefully someone will spill the info at somepoint because it’s weird I could see myself buying any OB products as replacement maybe but for a new project, seems unlikely. On Aug 2, 2025, at 12:52 PM, Maverick Brown via RE-wrenches <[email protected]> wrote: I do wonder what the real reason is that James bought outback and he also invented flex boss and grid boss. The Outback transition has languished uninformed to Wrenches and even to the DIY community. Just like the Gudgel boys, James has also shaped the industry in the new transition to the next era. After 20 years in the solar/battery business we built a homestead from the ground up in 2017 and the main inverter was a single Radian at the house and the outbuildings all had used XW inverters. I always thought I’d switch them to Radian One of the XWs died after over tens years of service. I replaced it with a Fortress Envy 12k. I guess if I have another failure here, that’s what I’ll get. Always open to customers wishes and have installed just about every inverter that’s ever been made installed from Tucson to Tucumcari ;-) but mostly in Texas. But, I’m Willin’ to work on the next best thing. Thank you, Maverick Brown
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Maverick Solar Enterprises, Inc.
• Solar Commander Remote Power
• SunFlow Systems Cathodic Protection
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512-460-9825 On Aug 2, 2025, at 11:15 AM, Jason Szumlanski via RE-wrenches <[email protected]> wrote: _______________________________________________
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