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So you also missed post #16, from Signature Solar, in a thread you started about them. I suppose that's their fault too.

The tone of LiTime's responses is what bothers me. They seem to be copping an attitude along the lines, "It can't possibly be our fault, and you didn't keep the shipping materials, so piss off." It seems to be more about being right than protecting their hard earned reputation. Short sighted and...

Holy cow, this sounds like a clueless company determined to avoid being taken, no matter what the facts are or how much business it might cost them. Anyone with experience in retail knows you end up eating some things you probably shouldn't have to, in order to avoid worse trouble. It's just...

So.... you expected them to call you up and try again at placing the order? Really? Neither party to that dumpster fire of a failed transaction came out looking credible here. I can't imagine this thread will change anything. Plus, I haven't had time to restock my popcorn supply, and the...

Maybe it's for some kind of six volt split phase system. 🤪

Based on my experience with factory reps, I would not put much faith in the "stolen inverters" story. The rep may well have been repeating what he was told, but that still doesn't prove anything.

Some scenario like this is what makes the most sense to me. Or, rather, is the least nonsensical thing I can see. The bricking seems to have been for Sol Ark's "benefit", maybe to get them to stop threatening Deye over their exclusive contract that Deye was blatantly ignoring. If Sol Ark was...

Are you still trying to make this purchase? If not, then I think it's over. Sure, you are still pissed off, but you are not out any money. Might be time to move on.

If any company cancelled a big order on me without an explanation, I'd figure I had dodged a bullet, and would take my money elsewhere. Last thing I would do is offer to bring them a bag of cash.

If you think copper is expensive, try having an electrical fire.

No shortage of reprehensible behavior in this shitshow. Yikes.

I guess we'd better not put it in storage, then.

Also make sure to get the same color. They are designed to only work with the same color, which makes them very safe when you have multiple connections using them. Identical connectors will work together, with the polarity always being correct. Really a great invention!

I'm having a hard time thinking of a situation in which it would make any kind of sense, even in a twisted corporate way, for Deye to do what they did. Seems more likely it's some kind of cascading incompetence, but we have little to nothing to go on so far. Is there actual evidence that Deye...

Fed Ex is insanely bad in my part of the boondocks. It seems like I see a different driver every time they deliver here. Some are completely clueless, others just careless. We live on a street corner, with a street sign 30 feet from the corner of our house. Our house number is clearly visible...

I'm not surprised. We had a nightmare of a time with our installation this year. The company actually doing the work failed to have anyone show up more often than not. The very first thing that was to happen at the property, a site survey or something like that, ended up being a no-call no-show...

Good god, man, hire an electrician before you kill someone or burn down your house.

100 miles is exactly the distance from my house to the nearest Home Depot.

As the story goes, It was Eisenhower who insisted on getting test pilots as the first astronauts. He was right, we needed people who knew how to get home by flying broken stuff.

Just like charging a battery, the only way current flows is from a higher voltage to a lower one. Not much has been said about this, but it is painfully obvious from the questions the OP asked, and other comments of his, that he has no business messing with electrical systems, let alone...

This screamin' deal is still available. I'm tempted to buy a few, even though I can't think of what I'd use them for. Roypow 12V 100Ah Lithium Battery - Bluetooth and Self Heating

Sounds like the old joke about "24 hour service" that really means three 8 hour business days, not counting weekends.

Lying, making sock puppet accounts, and making things up is not the way to get at the truth. Duh. All you managed to do is muddy the waters even more, and give some of the actual perpetrators something to point at and, with the same sort of behavior you are exhibiting here, say "See, they're...

The difference is trivial. 8mm sockets are interchangeable with 5/16. There is usually more difference in production tolerances, so the sockets from one system of measurement might fit better on a nut or bolt from the other. Same with 19mm and 3/4. Other sizes often work too, but the difference...

Good points, but at the same time, I don't think any installer who knows about this train wreck is going to want anything to do with the next one.

Another fan here. I've ordered from them a couple of times. Top notch quality, very quick service, and good prices. Hard to beat a combination like that.

Imitation Intelligence strikes again.

The obvious path forward is to send it to our resident oscillating saw ninja for inspection. 😁

That's pretty freaky when you sit next to the window and realize that if you could open it, you could easily reach out and touch the cowling. On an old MD80 or something, I suffered some significant hearing loss in one ear after we sat on the taxiway for 20 minutes, the engine next to me...

As someone else noted, email provides a written record, which can be invaluable. It's still the standard means of communication for serious business like banking and real estate transactions. Ignore it at your peril.

Wouldn't be the first time something like that happened.

Heh! Mel's Hole was one of Art's greatest hits. I'm sure it was well within the 98% of the show's content that was complete BS, but it was great fun. Art knew how to put on a show, that's for sure.

I'm at about 7500', so I just multiply by .7 or knock off a third if I'm doing it in my poor old abused head. Works out pretty close. Today was a good day. I got a few things done, and only spent about a quarter of my time looking for things. My brain doesn't work nearly as well as it used to...

I love it when the Streisand Effect hits the Powerball. [insert favorite popcorn GIF here]

Don't know about a crimp lug, but you might find something like this that will work. A bit inelegant outside their intended use, but they work. I've used them on 2/0 and other large size wires on inverters. Most hardware stores have a few, and an electrical supply house should have a good selection.

F'dUP, you say?

No magic smoke leaking so far, apparently.

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Congratulations on running a top notch forum, Will. I've only recently discovered it, and have learned a ton already. The high standards and collegial atmosphere make it easy to hang around here. Regardless of what exactly happened with the order that's the subject of this thread, the...

Here's one I would buy. I've had good luck with their products, and have a 2000 watt inverter I used in my work van. It has bluetooth, but it doesn't look like this 3000 watt model has that. Anyway, the one I have works fine, and the bluetooth even works as it should...

Also, it looks like they are pretty high up, and there's a guy walking on a glass panel with no safety gear... wait, a guy walking on a solar panel?

All this chatter about the chit chat forum got me curious, in a morbid sort of way. Like some others, I had no idea this site had a shit show section. If I were in charge, I'd keep it out of view of the general public, too. If some people are getting some particle of good out of it, then that's...

Also cures colds, molds, and sore bungholes.

That's what I thought. At least it's something, but then it's images on the interwebs...

I've bought a fair bit of kit from them. Two refrigerators, compressor type, that work great. An inverter that I used in my work van for a year before I retired and decommissioned the van, and a few other bits here and there. It all seems to be a really good value, especially when you catch it...

What's the matter? Git a brick through your winder?

Interesting. I was fixing to get some bifacials to put on top of an RV, just because they would look better, since they would mount on some rails up there from the factory. They'd sit several inches above the roof, so it seems like something flexible might not be a good idea with a 70 mph wind...

SGP is on my Fool me once, shame on you list, along with Renogy. SGP sent me a defective inverter early last year. They were horrible to deal with. I sent it back and they kept screwing me around. I finally called the bank and got my card refunded. Jerks. That was also a lesson about youtubers...

I'm working on something similar, though with two Growatt inverters that are designed to run in parallel. I bought them with the idea of setting them up in a split phase configuration, but they are 3kW inverters so only about 25 amps to a leg that way. There are no 240 volt loads, so I decided...