Re: [RE-wrenches] GT 3.0 FAILURES

2010-06-10 Thread i2p
On Jun 9, 2010, at 10:47:43 AM, "August Goers" wrote: maybe Xantrex has fixed it by now? Unlikely, since I continue to replace several sites a 2nd and in one case three times.  Don L ___ List sponsored by Home Power magazine List Address: RE-wrenche

Re: [RE-wrenches] GT 3.0 FAILURES

2010-06-09 Thread Nick Soleil
From: August Goers To: RE-wrenches Sent: Wed, June 9, 2010 10:47:43 AM Subject: Re: [RE-wrenches] GT 3.0 FAILURES We have about 100 or so GTs installed with about 10 failed units since 2007. In one interesting case we had one fail (smoked circuit board, blown AC fuse, the

Re: [RE-wrenches] GT 3.0 FAILURES

2010-06-09 Thread August Goers
: re-wrenches-boun...@lists.re-wrenches.org] *On Behalf Of *Peter Parrish *Sent:* Monday, June 07, 2010 6:26 PM *To:* 'RE-wrenches' *Subject:* Re: [RE-wrenches] GT 3.0 FAILURES I haven’t read the other precursor emails in the thread (but it doesn’t make any difference if I am to rela

Re: [RE-wrenches] GT 3.0 FAILURES

2010-06-07 Thread Peter Parrish
enches-boun...@lists.re-wrenches.org [mailto:re-wrenches-boun...@lists.re-wrenches.org] On Behalf Of Nick Soleil Sent: Monday, June 07, 2010 4:55 PM To: RE-wrenches Subject: Re: [RE-wrenches] GT 3.0 FAILURES Yes, I have commonly found issues with the GT series. I have installed hundreds of Xantrex

Re: [RE-wrenches] GT 3.0 FAILURES

2010-06-07 Thread Nick Soleil
Yes, I have commonly found issues with the GT series. I have installed hundreds of Xantrex inverters through the BP/Home Depot solar program. Unfortunately, I have replaced 4 in the last 2 weeks. With so many in the field, I am forced to spend a large amount of time troubleshooting and repla

Re: [RE-wrenches] GT 3.0 FAILURES

2010-06-07 Thread i2p
On Jun 7, 2010, at 11:36:18 AM, "Marco Mangelsdorf" wrote: one site having three failed buggers until I had had enough and switched to a comparable SMA product. This happened to me , after the third time I could not take the loss of customer confidence and installed another product. My fear

Re: [RE-wrenches] GT 3.0 FAILURES

2010-06-07 Thread Bruce Erickson
Don,We had 3 consecutive failures on one job (at 2 weeks, 2 months, and 1.5 years after installation). Customer rightfully said "I don't want another one of those", so we replaced it with a SWR2500 at our expense. Xantrex ultimately reimbursed us. Another job had 2 failures. Haven't used a Xantrex

Re: [RE-wrenches] GT 3.0 FAILURES

2010-06-07 Thread Dana Brandt
I installed several a couple years ago and had an average of one failure per installed inverter. Tech support wasn't particularly helpful and a couple of the replacements took months to be shipped. Customers aren't very understanding of systems being down for 4-5 months. We no longer use any Xantre