Ha! I knew something was fishy as soon as i saw that document on the Sunforce website that clumsily merged from stolen FAQs from SWWP into the Sunforce turbines. Now I wonder how to make Amazon remove shill reviews of the Sunforce stuff that imply it's made in the USA by Southwest Wind Power. Amazon has been totally non-responsive in the past to inquiries we have made about other products and reviews.
To Ross and all the other folks at SWWP -- please get your lawyers to RUN with this one. It will help the entire small wind industry. -- Dan Fink, Executive Director; Otherpower Buckville Energy Consulting Buckville Publications LLC NABCEP / IREC accredited Continuing Education Providers 970.672.4342 (voicemail) On Wed, Apr 4, 2012 at 12:41 PM, Dana <d...@solarwork.com> wrote: > This is from Ross Taylor trainer for SWWP. > > > > I was reviewing the Sunforce product for a comparison and found that their > installation manual for > > their Sunforce 600 Watt turbine contains material which appears to have been > taken (without permission) > > from our Air-X (now Air 30) manual. > > This is especially sensitive to me/us as we used to package our Air-x > turbine in Sunforce boxes for sale > > through their distribution network. They, without notice, quit ordering our > turbine and replaced our > > product in their lineup with an imported turbine. So, to see that the manual > for their new turbine contains > > material which is almost (or, in some instances, IS) an exact copy of ours > is disturbing. It's so clearly > > "our" material that I recognized it when reviewing theSunforce turbine > manual, even without having them > > side-by-side. > > Their manual can be found here: > > http://sunforceproducts.com/prodinfo/manuals/600WMarineandMPPTManual.pdf > > Our Air 30 manual can be found here: > > http://www.windenergy.com/sites/all/files/3-CMLT-1007_Rev_A_Air_30_Manual_1.pdf > > The relevant sections, which appear to have been taken from our manual, are: > > Sunforce: Page 3, the graphic showing turbine 20 feet above the house is > ours but altered (see Air 30 > > manual, page 9) > > Sunforce: Page 5, their wire size charts are exact copies of ours (see Air > 30 manual, page 17) > > Sunforce: Page 14, the maintenance instructions are word-for-word copies in > some cases (see Air 30 > > manual, page 25) > > Sunforce: Page 15, Section 8 (cont'd on page 16) regarding batteries (see > Air 30 manual, page 19) > > Sunforce: Page 17, portions of the grounding text are word-for-word copies > and the image is > > an exact copy (see Air 30 manual, page 21) > > There may be other instances, as well, but this was what I observed in a > quick comparison > _______________________________________________ List sponsored by Home Power magazine List Address: RE-wrenches@lists.re-wrenches.org Options & settings: http://lists.re-wrenches.org/options.cgi/re-wrenches-re-wrenches.org List-Archive: http://lists.re-wrenches.org/pipermail/re-wrenches-re-wrenches.org List rules & etiquette: www.re-wrenches.org/etiquette.htm Check out participant bios: www.members.re-wrenches.org
