Inverter Warranty

[jason121]

Pricing job this week up against national company who are promoting inverters with 20 year warranty. Anyone know of inverters out there that have a warranty of 20 years??

 

[JulianC]

Most of them if you're prepared to pay enough

 

[jason121]

National company said it was standard warranty for inverter

 

[zeljuga]

Enphase microinverter, 20 year warranty ,first year inclusive of access scaffolding. Panel temperature, AC,DC,monitoring on single panel level , Easy data rapports. Seem to be promising option.

 

[The Solar King]

Enecsys micro inverter

 

[jason121]

no wasn't micro i offered micro guy wanted standard inverter

 

[stevie gill]

no wasn't micro i offered micro guy wanted standard inverter

We too have come across this. It turned out that the National company had built in the cost of stretching out a warranty into their quote. Their salesmen were stating that this was a standard warranty, but when we dug into it, the customer was paying for the extended warranty inadvertently!

Needless to say that once I pointed this out to the customer, they told the National where to go, went with us and opted not to go for the extended warranty. This confused me a little.....

 

[whinmoor]

Fronius were doing something like this - 20 years for the price of 10. Not sure if scheme's still running:

Fronius International GmbH - Keeping up-to-date - News overview

 

[jason121]

I agree with Stevie bit of a con warranty is extended and hidden in cost some where. If you guys dont know of a inverter thats does a standard warranty, must be con.

 

[puddy]

I have a Fronius IG30 they said it wont last longer than 10 years but that's homesun problem but I understand they are good make is that correct?

 

[Eco Deal]

it will be an extended warranty in price.

 

[liquidity]

Any company that wants to stay in business over the long term factors the cost of a product's warranty into the sell price. A product with a 10 year warranty is not necessarily a better product than one with a 5 year warranty - it's simply that the manufacturer has estimated the number of failures across the projected number sold and added that to the sell price. Warranties are not free.

 

[SolarCity]

Your inverter is not destined to pack up after 10 years. Most of what I hear is that the life of the inverter is probably around 20 years - and judging by the low price of a warranty extension, it seems that the manufacturers are putting their money where their mouth is.

 

[jason121]

Thanks guys. Quote in the post with extended warranty as an extra

 

[puddy]

Your inverter is not destined to pack up after 10 years.

Great news for homesun then