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EVERYONE that is going off on the op needs to back off a bit since SS admits he is telling the truth about the order. He said his order was cancelled - SS admits this He said he didn't know why - SS admits this He said he tried to contact them to find out why - SS is known for this He said...

Lightning, rain and heavy winds. Powers out for half the county and I'm sitting here enjoying my solar setup :) Had to share ! For some reason my neighbors are not sharing my enthusiasm :unsure:

The idea sounds good in theory. The problem that I have seen reading threads on here is people are only able to get support by begging for help from SS on HERE. According to their posts they were unable to get SS's attention or get thru to them until asking for help here. Again that's my take...

This isn't big brother if you think about it. If you were some newbie that went ahead and grid tied without getting with them you could easily be back feeding in a power outage and that WILL kill a lineman in the right situation. Remember the line to your house is supposed to be safe when they...

When sparks or smoke and sizzling noises are coming out of the product its not SAFE for the customer to be messing around with the product. The original poster mentions this. That's pretty much common sense. He said : I hear loud popping coming from one of the inverters and all the loads in my...

Bad part is if you buy one at a great price and they still go under then no support and no part :(

They have those now. They call them RV's :)

But that's a lie. One that the power companies made up when solar became popular. All power companies that I know of have a minimum power bill. You pay that for the privilege of staying connected. If that fee is good enough for pre solar days and is still good enough now if you don't have solar...

This was wild :) This is what happens when the magic smoke gets out of your inverters !

Well my entire system that runs my house was bought this year so that kind of coverings everything :) Sungold TP6048 powering the house - Works flawless and forget its out there. Perfection. Orange pi and solar assistant - Daily entertainment watching how much I'm saving. Lifepo4 batteries...

I think he is handling the SS situation perfectly. They have been roasted by some of the members and Will hasn't said squat about it one way or the other. No moderating has been needed or applied from what I can tell. Can't ask for much more. Now if he chimed in like your inferring he should...

I'd rather you stay true to real life than the crap I see other youtube folks do. "It failed horribly and left us without power!" (I turned off the wrong breaker and it was to the inverter) "Sparks were coming out everywhere" (I didn't have the nuts tight on the battery leads) "We almost died...

Short version as I understand it (Just my opinion/take on what I have read) 1. Watt's Happening buys 18kpv 2. 18kpv backfeeds to grid when its set not to and he isn't allowed to backfeed so its a BIG deal. 3. 18kpv support makes him jump thru hoops trying to fix problem. 4. Engineers from...

Well one thing that I find completely RIDICULOUS is having a customer repair electrical equipment. That's is by definition what the damn warranty is for. SS might want to look into on site repair/tech guys because what is going to happen is some unlucky buyer is going to stick a screw driver...

You can run it on windows via a virtual machine setup. I have done it to test stuff. Its just not supported that way. The pi's are not but $60 turn key. That means you get an orange pi 3 lts board, case to put it in and a power supply. So complete computer to run it on for $60. It has to run...

I haven't seen a business to business fight yet in this. The dude has bent over backwards to put your company in a good light during his problems with the product you sold him. What I read or took away from what I read is the slow simmering frustration with problems he shouldn't have had to...

Sungold just asked for the serial number and order number when I needed something :) Also they didn't care if it was from amazon..... Oh and it took under 5 minutes at 2am in the morning to help me. No registration required :cool:

But they come with a free flashlight !

Being able to monitor the solar setups is required of course and one of the things that was ticking me off was not being able to use bluetooth except while standing beside the equipment basically. I needed to monitor it from my computer room which is over 100 feet away easily and also when not...

I still think my first setup beats its.... Thrown on the side of a bluff behind my first house with screw drivers stuck in the bluff at the base of them :) Worked amazingly well too.

It works like that 18k stuff. So if 18k = 12k with 18k pv the offer works like Oct 31st = whenever we feel like cancelling it :)

I don't see it that way. I made a bunch of money off youtube washing a car tire one time. Now take that and apply it to what Will does. MEGA money. The forum isn't monetized at all so I don't really see it as he needs us what so ever. He would do fine just making the videos and other things. I...

Here is a shot of the panel mounted on the rack. Yes I need to cut grass. Hopefully the storms will stop long enough to cut it this week. After the wife gives her blessing on where this will go I will use mobile home tie down screw in pegs to secure the back legs of the mount in place...

The problem is most people take post count as being a representation of the quality of the advise (with reality being post count = no outside life most of the time :) ). At the rate the aforementioned subject of this thread was going post count wise he would look like an old timer in no time.

I finished putting the first of the eco-worthy solar racks together. Ive got to pickup the concrete footers for them tomorrow. Better made than I expected actually and was fun assembling :) I will only be able to put two of the 450 watt renogy's on each rack.

The part that worries me is how long before she burns out. Can't be a fun job considering what she got dropped into....

Ive watched a good bit of his videos, not all of them but a good bit. I like sungold. I bought sungold. His review of the ones I watched of sungold products wasn't favorable but that model had issues and they were legitimate issues. I didn't get mad or anything as it was informative. As for SS...

I just downloaded 188 issues of home power off their site. So if anyone wants to read it they have them all there to download as pdf files. https://www.homepower.com/

I personally appreciate the entire site and members here from my brief time posting on here. Why? Its pretty simply actually. I started using solar back in the days when it was a ROYAL pain to get ANYTHING working. Very little information was on the net about the stuff. No builds to read about...

Also if solar assistant is anywhere in the house it will sneak into the room with the unit and slaughter it during the night... Just ask SS tech support :)