Sun collectors do not work further into the night, and the solar installers shouldn’t.
Have you ever heard that an installer promises a premium brand of solar panel, battery or inverter for an absolute bargain? As the old saying says: If something is too good to be true, it is likely. Here is the reason why good quality equipment does not always mean a job of good quality.
It is easy to select devices with a low class. It is cheap compared to first -class options like Fronius. But if you have two offers for the same quality hardware, but company A calculates half of the company B, why then pay more?
With 50 cents per watt, companies A not only increase the competition, but also pursue the entire industry with terribly low margins that make the business of everyone unsustainable. If guarantee problems arise, these companies disappear.
An NSW-based customer of such an installer, David, allegedly found this after his chic Fronius inverter failed.
David continued that: “This is a simple warranty error (the inverter failed) and I need some paperwork to apply for guarantee. They were difficult to understand. I also had to know whether they were sending a technician out or I refer my own technician. In the end I had to do a local company for the work of the work that was working in the areas for installing the system, which was available by installing the installation of the installation of the Sypelimic -Ssypiericians -Sypierician’s artemic arted -yste -yste -y -hharth -Arted -Arted -Arted -Arted arted art. “
A Fronius inverter with an error that is supposedly connected to poor installation.
Credible credibility
A cheap installer who uses brand name equipment is only borrowed from the credibility and reputation of an expensive brand.
You can install cheap things well, it happens all the time, but poorly installed good equipment is still a terrible result.
Ask everyone who bought a Jaguar of the 1970s who gathered in New Zealand on site. British Leyland Production with Antipodian Assembly was only sublime.
The poor Fronius -Snap inverter was destroyed. Image Credit South Australian Office of the Technical Supervisory Authority
A story of two installations
I recently asked a colleague how to judge a “cheap” job? His answer; It is mainly time.
His business budgets for 3 man hours per kilowatt -installed capacity. 6.6 kW x 3 corresponds to almost 20 hours. Add a lunch break and you have seen 7.6 hours per person or roughly, a metric work.
However, the example he quoted was interesting, two similar jobs that were done side by side. One was completed at 4:30 p.m., while the other, which was completed at 11:30 a.m., is now on the way to the court.
This other fast job included a deposit of 200 US dollars by phone and should cost 4,400 US dollars, but alarm bells would have had to ring when the installation team asked for $ 4,200.
It turns out that the T&C small print before the game, but the customer rejected what is good because there is a laundry list of defects:
- Panel clamp zones without completion
- badly ground/adapted tiles
- Management inadequately carried with cable bonds in the roof
- unprotected earth cables on the array
- Rails cut too short cut off
- Rails strongly extended
- Inverters too close to the gas knife
- Labeling not installed
Nobody on the roof would identify with something different from the first name until a fourth person appeared who was the actual licensed installer.
This violates the STC rules, so I am not sure how the time -stamped, geotagged selfies were installed and finished.
Nobody wins apart from the lawyers
It will be difficult to take this job in court because it is not really over.
The retailer offered a discount of $ 1,000 to grease the bikes, but the customer refuses to have the installer back to use the original contract. As already mentioned, there are no labels, no STC claim and no compliance certificate, which means that the technical supervisory authority cannot deal with the complaint.
The end? It is perverted, but the consumer will probably lose the case in front of a judge because he was not “reasonable” enough to sort the task.
Brands are individual, but no guarantee
Apart from bad installations, top -class brands also slip out. LG Chem has produced batteries that are a dark failure and a master class in what is not to be done for a national recall. QCELLS have disappeared from Australia and have left a number of disappointed customers and angry installers with warranty battles.
Unfortunately, we saw some mistakes from the original equipment manufacturers and the retail price was not always revealing.
Red arrows show missing links, so this was super safe for 5 years. You cannot have an isolate fire on the roof if half of the system never work at first. Photo credits: Jerome Edridge
Your best bet is still a high -quality installer
At the time of writing, you would like to pay around 1,000 US dollars per kilowatt solar that is installed on your roof to run a good company a sustainable business.
Sometimes you get a reputable subcontractor who occasionally picks up a low -paid job of a cheap amount to fill a hole in your calendar. So it is not impossible to get a good job for cheap, it’s just not likely.
Note that a door cartrid system for $ 2000/KW is probably not good, but if you have a multifaceted, steep slate tile roof in a rural location, the price can still be high for obvious reasons.
We really did not have to blur the address, this informative site card is prescribed according to the rules, but illegible anyway.
Give yourself a break
A high -quality installation program at the beginning is the best way to ensure that you have the slightest problems in your electrification process. While there is always a chance that a Rouge apprentice may fall through her ceiling. If you check the one star reviews, see how the worst installers work.
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