On Jun 26, 2012, at 2:59 PM, SunHarvest wrote: > The KC120's turned out to be faulty. Kyocera replaced all 12 of the bad > KC120's with refurbished KC120's and requested an invoice for my labor to > complete the exchange. I tested the new and old modules side by side and both > registered the same voltage and amperage. It's only under load when the power > failure is apparent. This is why I initially ruled out the modules as being > the problem. Thanks for all your help wrenchers! > > Eric Stikes > Owner
Eric, You might want to look at the module label and confirm output. Just this Monday I opened an unused, 3 year old box of two of those replacement Kyocera 120-1Rs and while doing a x v discovered it was only 102 watts. I arranged the replacement of 10 these 3 years ago and don't think I actually looked then, What more need ye know than KC120 right? But suspect I had the wool pulled over my eyes by Kyocera. A net loss of replacement watts. Even though Kyocera will replace them with pleasure, it seems strange for them to allow a whole class of customers to absorb the cost of faulty modules with prematurely failed batteries and/or excess generator use, so that Kyocera can absorb the cost slowly over years while thousands of customers pay the consequence$ until the swap happens. Why not a recall? $$$ of course. Then the pleasantly supplied replacements come in 15% smaller. Ouch Anyone else out there with 120-1R Kyocera modules that label 6.08 I-pk and 16.8V-pk. Kyocera needs to "amp up" the replacements in my view. - Wallace Stahle Future Electric Energy Co P O Box 236 Willits, CA 95490 fut...@pacific.net CA Lic.# C10-762093 707-459-0474
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