Fronius is like Sears tools. The warranty is good but you have to use it all the time. 500% failure rate on Fronius for us. We use only SMA. The TL-22 series has great features. So far it is reliable. SMAs grid tie tech support is good. Less impressed with island support.
William Miller > On Jun 15, 2016, at 2:26 PM, scot.a...@solarcentex.com wrote: > > Fronius has been wonderful and as you say, they are prompt. > > More importantly, they have a tech team one can reach quite quickly. > > Strongly recommend the company and its product line. > > Howard "Scot" Arey > Solar CenTex > 254-300-1228 > > Sent from Outlook Mobile > > > > On Wed, Jun 15, 2016 at 3:30 PM -0500, "Sky Sims" > <s...@ecologicalsystems.biz> wrote: > >> Just found out the hard way that Solectria (now Yaskawa?) doesn't do service >> call reimbursement or cover downtime of their product during the warranty >> period. They promised the world when I was in the inverter selection process >> but once they get the equipment out the door apparently down time and the >> site visits spent fixing their product is their customers problem. >> We're thinking about switching inverter brands, which inverters have the >> best reimbursement policies right now? >> My experience has been: >> SMA pay's $150 per inverter per truck roll(although it can be difficult >> collecting from them). >> ABB pays $150 (although it can be difficult to collecting from them) >> Schneider Electric pays $150 (they've been really quick to pay anytime there >> is an issue) >> Fronius pays $250 (they’ve been really quick to pay anytime there is an >> issue) >> >> That's my list right now and when it comes to reimbursing installers for >> problems with their equipment during the warranty period Fronius looks like >> the big winner right now with Schneider coming in a close second. >> >> My two cents, >> Sky Sims >> Ecological Systems >> >> _______________________________________________ >> List sponsored by Redwood Alliance >> >> List Address: RE-wrenches@lists.re-wrenches.org >> >> Change listserver email address & settings: >> http://lists.re-wrenches.org/options.cgi/re-wrenches-re-wrenches.org >> >> List-Archive: >> http://www.mail-archive.com/re-wrenches@lists.re-wrenches.org/maillist.html >> >> List rules & etiquette: >> www.re-wrenches.org/etiquette.htm >> >> Check out or update participant bios: >> www.members.re-wrenches.org >> > _______________________________________________ > List sponsored by Redwood Alliance > > List Address: RE-wrenches@lists.re-wrenches.org > > Change listserver email address & settings: > http://lists.re-wrenches.org/options.cgi/re-wrenches-re-wrenches.org > > List-Archive: > http://www.mail-archive.com/re-wrenches@lists.re-wrenches.org/maillist.html > > List rules & etiquette: > www.re-wrenches.org/etiquette.htm > > Check out or update participant bios: > www.members.re-wrenches.org >
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