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Congratulations! You figured out the warranty process. Call in, start the claim, jump through hoops, jump through more hoops, get blamed for the failure, then at some point in the process, get frustrated and hop on this forum to complete your warranty paperwork.

I picked up a CNC knee mill that needs new motors and controls. The ways, ball screws, and bed look nearly untouched. The variable speed head is in the floor just out of shot. The thing was filthy and needed to be torn down to fit out of the building.

Also, I'm pretty sure "warranty void if opened" is an illegal position to take and can't be enforced. It really says something about the company when they can't take "there's popping and smoke" as enough of a reason to issue an RMA. Sure, you need to verify voltage inputs, but damn, trying to...

I've got about 7 Milwaukee M12 batteries. This morning, one 6.0ah battery failed to charge and the charger started blinking alternating red and green LEDs. The symbol on the charger reminds me of a broken heart, but a battery instead of a heart. You can see the led key on the charger below. I...

Just stop, please stop. No resistance in the US has 3-phase service. Everyone posting here about this long run is recommending running high voltage DC for a long distance. 600 volt MPPTs exist for a reason, anyone with logic would run one in this situation. Stop comparing apples to stupid ideas.

I think you shouldn't insult others reading comprehension. Your posts are quite long, tent towards rambling, and do jump around quite a bit. (I also shouldn't point fingers as my posts can do the same) Yes, you need lots of wires with that many temperature sensors and cells. But, it gives...

Please break up your post into paragraphs/put pictures in line with hr text. A wall of text is quickly ignored

I wish I was in the market for an inverter The Midnite Rosie is on sale for $2600 at AltE https://www.altestore.com/store/inverters/hybrid-inverters/midnite-solar-rosie-7000w-48v-invertercharger-p42689/ Pretty good specs 20kva surge 7 watt idle draw American made Supported by the designer and...

Oh noes Almost like you need to pay for products from a good vendor and that shopping by price alone isn't the right metric?! How shocking ?

Despite your previous disclaimer, I'm still picturing something like this:

While that's possible to buy EG4 equipment elsewhere. You should know that EG4 is basically just Signature Solar's house brand. Technically, they are two different companies, but two different companies staffed and owned by the same people.

Just to clarify, the instruction was to not charge during peak hours and the flex alerts. Something like 4-10 pm. There's still plenty of time to change a car. We just need to be smart about it. The actual quote I found: "We’re not saying don’t charge them,” she said. “We’re just saying don’t...

The short version is set the grid support voltage higher than battery voltage. Edit to add that the MPPT much have charge settings that are higher than grid support voltage. The inverter will sell any energy it can get that is above the grid support voltage setting. If you enable grid support...

Sounds like your absorption fridge is running on electric only mode. I've heard they burn tons of energy in electric mode and are far less efficient than a residential fridge with a compressor.

I agree and was thinking the same thing a while back. My best guess is Signature Solar selling them/new buyers expecting exactly their desired performance without reading the manuals and understanding how the settings work and what is possible.

From everything I read on this forum, they've earned their less than stellar reputation via years of this same exact service level. I know you got a hard time for this question, but evidence here says the answer is "yes"

It's going to be 115 ish here today and was 105 yesterday. Even at 100f the current solar doesn't come close to covering loads to the end of PGE's peak rates. So, I spent some time this weekend (and I had been mulling this on and off for a while) making a plan and looking at roof measurements...

Well, I never thought I'd need the warranty on my solar panels, but here I am. 5 years into the 25 year warranty. Anyways, on to my story. Yesterday evening, I logged into the Solar Edge monitoring platform and had this alert: I like how at the end they basically says, our stuff isn't the...

Functionally, no. But if you're getting permits and inspections, you probably need all the breakers that the PDP includes. Up until the most recent firmware, the answer was no. You cannot start a charge cycle based on a timer or otherwise. However, the most recent firmware says it now supports...

Permits approved! I need to run out tomorrow and pick them up. Time to drive up to AltE!

There was discussion of heat pumps. I agree an air source heat pump would be a bad choice at -45. But, a ground source heat pump doesn't care about ambient temp. Sink a deep enough hole for the piping and you can have that 3.0 cop year round.

Fun theory. Sure, you could do more balancing every couple months. Or you could do the industry standard and leave the balancer to do it's thing anytime needed, in tiny increments. Is this 0.05c your entire point? Or 3.65 volts? The company I work for has worked directly with EVE to establish...

Much better! I also ran about 1/2 the conduit run. I'm not sure if is was the easy half or the difficult half. There's lots more bends in the garage rafters. But remaining half is the mostly straight run through the attic, I'm not looking forward to that.

So, you're done answering questions and not listening to input? If your "regular battery charger" is 5 amps that could take 40+ hours if you had the settings correct. If the charger can't reach 28-29 volts it will never finish. The BMS and battery could be crap. But it don't see evidence of...

Search the forum here, you aren't alone. You also found what is likely to be your quickest path to a resolution, posting here. Sad that is what's required, but you'll likely get the attention now and get a resolution.

Nice! I've got a different plan to piss them off, probably not as effective ? I mostly gave them megawatt hours of power they didn't want. I could probably just barely go negative year round, but we run electric heat just to use up some of the electric credits. Turns out electric is more...

Don't solder then crimp, that's a nearly guaranteed failure. Just crimp them using quality ring terminals/lugs and a good crimper. Better advice is to use bus bars as the Lord intended. Run one large cable (or two because Sol-Ark has 2 and 4/0x2 is needed for 375 amps) into the SolArk down the...

There's a saying, something like "You play with pigs, you get covered in mud" Feels pretty applicable here.

DC shouldn't be grounded at all on most systems. Calling DC negative "ground" is a bad habit we all have, but it isn't the same thing.