It seems anecdotal until it happens to you.
My mention of civil disobedience has been answered clearly with a “No” in this forum, and I'm fine to hear that.
I'll clarify a few points as to why I honestly think RSD has been a huge and costly mistake. I genuinely think RSD requirements should be terminated immediately. If the technology were more robust and if it worked consistently I wouldn't protest. But all the products I've tried have been trouble.
William, respectfully your analogy to seat belts is not an appropriate comparison to Rapid Shutdown. Seat-belts were required in all new cars starting in 1968 because there was statistical evidence supporting their tremendous efficacy in saving human life. Currently seat belts save about 15,000 lives per year.
Contrasting to RSD: was implemented because of the following paranoid fairytale scenario - “A firefighter is on a burning solar roof in the daytime, and wearing a metal axe at their hip. the poor guy/gal falls into live solar glass, and shatters it. The fall is so forceful that the heavy-duty fireman’s suit is punctured. Electricity conducts through the axe blade, through the suit, contacts the skin, and a DC circuit is completed through their body.”
As far as I know, this has never happened once anywhere on earth. Let’s be honest - this scenario has an incredibly low chance of ever happening in all the future of humanity. So considering that RSD has never helped anyone yet, and probably never will... How many fires can be attributed to RSD? How much property damage has occurred because of these fires?
The best path to safety for firefighters is by preventing fire disasters in the first place. Fires spread. Any fire that happens endangers property owners, tenants, business owners, neighbors, shoppers, bystanders, nearby forests, etc. RSD manufacturers aren't doing a good job right now, so we are seeing low quality unreliable electronics on the roof. I will stick my neck out and admit that installers are not always perfect. Humans make mistakes - sometimes in initial construction, and sometimes during repair and maintenance (i.e. when hunting down failed RSD's which happens far more than it should).
At this time, these devices are not being designed to withstand reality. When problems happen, manufacturers are quibbling. They ignore you until you go away, or until you sue them.
This level of "safety" is not important, and in fact RSD is causing fires every year.
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