The photovoltaic effect

[Gavin A]

Yes, I agree, we probably would too, but your not ruled by accountants who see over a million units shipped and the liabitlies and risk associated with warranty claims. Imagine what it would do to your share price if your warranty covered installers butching your lovely product.

should your TV warranty be voided because a qualified electrician replaced the plug?

 

[Gavin A]

Any professional installer would not be cutting cables and fitting MC4s

can you explain why not?

we are after all responsible for wiring up the other connector on the cable from the isolator that it's connecting to. What's so special about Sanyo's cables that we're not judged competent to touch them, but are competent to wire up every other aspect of the installation?

IMO this is a completely unacceptable position from Panasonic, and I've just emailed them to let them ask them to revise their position on this.

I'd have to wonder if they'd really have preferred us simply not to install their systems last November after we ran out of MC3 connectors, and couldn't get any more from anywhere, while having 3 pallets of Sanyo panel in our warehouse with customers begging for them to be installed before the deadline? Would Sanyo have refunded the £50k we'd paid up front for these panels, and compensated us for the lost revenue caused by supply chain issues from their component suppliers? Somehow I doubt it.

 

[valet]

Hi Gavin
I think your mail box are over the limit.

Any new on Pansonic / Sanyo warranty?

They send me a new reply

 

[valet]

Any news on Sanyo warranty if MC3 connectors had been replaced with MC4?

 

[valet]

:cool3:

 

[xiaoneitie]

basically if there's no circuit, there's nowhere for the power to flow to, so it just remains as potential.

 

[levi]

was looking in to doing the pv instalers course. in your experience dose it pay to do an mcs quall i would probably only be doing the odd pv job.

 

[Earthstore]

No.
Really not a good idea, try and think of another...

 

[solarsparkie]

a panel in sunlight but not connected behaves much like a charged capacitor ( there is no current just potential ) which will be limited