I was troubleshooting a site on Friday with the same Imax error on the same SB8000 inverter. Took the cover off and found a cracked capacitor.
Inverter was manufactured 12/2021 and SMA is telling me it’s out of warranty (by a week). I’m trying to appeal to their humanity. Good luck! Garrison Riegel Celestar Solar > On Jan 9, 2022, at 11:55 AM, Marco Mangelsdorf <ma...@pvthawaii.com> wrote: > > Hey Mac, > > It’s been my experience over the years that the Imax failure is fatal. > > marco > >> On Sunday, January 9, 2022, Mac Lewis <maclew...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Hello Wrenches, >> >> I've got a customer that has an issue with their ~10 yr old SB8000US >> connected to a quad stack of Sunny Island system that's off-grid. >> >> It looks like it's on and off, trying to make power but seems to think there >> is a problem on the AC side. Do you have any advice as to what may be going >> on? Anything that I can do that may not require replacement? Very tough >> communicating to SMA while on site and of course, this always happens on >> Friday night. >> >> Thanks! >> >> -- >> >> >> >> Mac Lewis >> >> "Yo solo sé que no sé nada." -Sócrates >> > _______________________________________________ > List sponsored by Redwood Alliance > > Pay optional member dues here: http://re-wrenches.org > > 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 > > There are two list archives for searching. When one doesn't work, try the > other: > https://www.mail-archive.com/re-wrenches@lists.re-wrenches.org/ > http://lists.re-wrenches.org/pipermail/re-wrenches-re-wrenches.org > > List rules & etiquette: > http://www.re-wrenches.org/etiquette.htm > > Check out or update participant bios: > http://www.members.re-wrenches.org >
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