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The older, and presumably wiser, that one gets, the more humbled by the realization of how little one actually knows. At the same time, it can often be the case that the wiser one gets, the more frustrated one becomes with the general bane of ignorance. Ignorance is a huge problem. Ignorance...

I don't believe this is accurate. Neither Sol-Ark nor Deye has any jurisdiction over where their respective products are. The only thing their contract might legally address is rights to sell the products in certain regions. Once purchased, it's entirely within the caprice of the buyer to...

A franchise is a business. That is a separate issue. Sol-Ark is a franchise, perhaps, as a company. But an inverter is not a business, and does not qualify as a franchise. Taco Bell is a franchise. A Taco Bell seven-layer burrito is not. I can take that burrito with me to any place on...

You don't see an issue with the Sol-Ark-specific firmware having gotten bricked? Given the Costa Rica case recently discussed, if there are two extremes here, they appear to be these: 1) Non-USA-based inverter being bricked for NOT being a Sol-Ark model; and 2) Sol-Ark-firmware being bricked...

I came late to this, so haven't read all 237 pages of it. But there are some pertinent facts that have been missing in virtually every dialogue on this topic that I have seen, and I think it's important that people understand some biological facts about the corona virus and the experimental...

I think that analogy doesn't fit well for units that claim to offer batteryless operation. Here's a snapshot from the EG4 18KPV manual, p. 39. (Highlighting on "battery" is supplied.)

So, what happens to those running NordVPN or similar in some other part of the world when their VPN service happens to select an IP from the region over which Sol-Ark reigns? Do they get bricked, too? I would act dumb too if I were a Sol-Ark representative right now.

I watched a professional feller in British Columbia fell about 100 trees on a large property some years ago. He would tell us before he cut it which way it was going to fall. He was right every time. He would look at the tree, judge its position, its lean, its balance/weight...I don't know...

I'm not sure I understand this. I'm very happy you got your inverter working again, but did Deye send you a code or did they send you a firmware? Or did you have to have a code first, then changed the firmware next? Did Deye tell you to change the firmware, or did they just send you a code...

What many do not realize is that China has varying levels of quality in what they sell. They sell some of their best to America. Get Chinese products in Thailand or elsewhere and you may be getting half, or less, the quality of the same Chinese-made product sold in America. FaceBook on the...

We could add more to your list. It seems that three consecutive Democrat presidents oversaw the Vietnam War before a Republican president ended it. That said, political affiliation is no measure of character, and both/all/any parties are deeply flawed. Those selecting their future officials...

It's clear something upset you in this thread. I'm finding it educational, and I am not fully clear on what your issue is/has been. It's not unusual that someone who as experienced issues with their equipment would be a bit irritable about it--I tend to take those perspectives with a grain of...

We know there is a connection to the serial number. Some of us would like to work out that relationship and be able to provide a simple tool to help others unbrick their own devices based on their own serial number. To prepare the tool, we need some accurate data, i.e. examples of working...

I'd say good riddance to the company that snooped on my location without my consent, and likely not purchase again from them. It's a free market, so I suppose they can shoot themselves in the foot if they wish. There's no good reason to do so, either from a marketing/customer service...

A contract which breaks laws against monopolies should be null and void to begin with. This spirit of Sol-Ark against competition reminds me of "Internet Destroyer" (Microsoft's Internet Explorer) which at one point some years ago literally destroyed Mozilla's Netscape Navigator/Communicator...

I'd say Florida fared about as well as could be hoped for given the early Cat. 5 showing of this storm. In under 24 hours the storm passed clear over, landing at Cat. 3, and now showing as only a Cat. 1. Obviously, no storm at all would have been better, but this could have been a whole lot...

I disagree. While few may be "outspoken," they tend to represent many others who "lurk" silently, witnesses to the information coming to light. How many may never be known, but there are daily hundreds of visitors to this site who are not registered members. If you feel Sol-Ark and Deye will...

A good friend of mine, in America, worked as a lineman, and had stories to tell of colleagues who were linemen. They often do their work, intentionally, with live lines. They know very well what they are doing, and must take proper precautions to avoid electrocution. If they can work on live...

I used to believe this, too--didn't even have an air-conditioner. I finally broke down and bought one, as it was simply too hot at night to sleep, and without good rest I felt my health was compromised. But I was in for a surprise...! The electric bill went DOWN with the usage of the inverter...

Mass shootings in America are not caused by guns. Americans have had easy access to guns from America's foundation. Only in the past few decades have there been so many crazed individuals seeking to go out in a blaze of violence. This violence stems, not from access to guns--which Americans...

Not that you're trying to pull the wool over the inspector's eyes, as a knowledgeable individual would certainly know what the full voltage of an LFP battery is, but nominally it is a 48-volt system, after all, and I would recommend speaking of it as such. When dealing with inspectors (building...

Haha! In about 2013 I plugged in a switchable device that could accommodate either 110v or 220v. I had just moved from North America, and was now plugging in to a 220v outlet. I had just connected everything together for my expensive video editing system, including the attached external...

With power-tripper inspectors, a strategy that sometimes works well is to leave something inexpensive to fix done the wrong way. This kind of inspector will find something to carp about and require a change--so give him something that can be easily identified and adjusted. Once he has found a...

Strange that so many are clamoring to have that wonderful toxin put into their drinking water in the name of "dental health." Only a breath of airborne fluorine can be fatal, depending on the concentration. Fluorine can cause things which are not ordinarily considered combustible to burn quite...

Regarding weather modification: A friend here in Thailand has noticed that when the planes with chemtrails pass overhead, solar production on a sunny day mysteriously drops to very little. I have not monitored enough to observe the phenomenon myself, and initially was quite incredulous that it...

I disagree. There's no such thing as one-rule-fits-all. For example, I am an American living in Thailand. I have no access to Sol-Ark products here. Suppose I invest in a personal home inverter and buy a Deye unit (which was, until this news came up, my preferred brand among those available...

I agree with @Bluedog225. Be careful of your attitude. Resistance provokes resistance. If you accomplish what you wish via fighting, it will be a hard fight. I once paid about $500 USD in attorney fees for help working with a stubborn government official, unrelated to solar. The lawyer's...

Because we had to travel, and assumed the vaccination record would be required at checkpoints along the way, we vaxxed our children against tetanus, diphtheria, and polio--and only those. They were already older than the schedule recommended. Soon afterward, they developed allergies, but I...

It appears you caught my typo before I did. :) I fixed it before reading your post, but, alas, you've now provided it for posterity. :fp

So you think someone with 10 posts is "laughable" because they make a reference to a friend who just happens to frown upon your favored product. I think your criterion is "laughable." I appreciate input from all sides. It's up to me to determine how much is instructive and how much is...

I think, if one were to count, there are now more people opting out of buying either Deye or Sol-Ark on account of this bricking than there have been reports of bricking. Did the manufacturers forget about the ripple effect of their unilateral, autocratic actions on their global market?

My point was that this thread, and similar ones to be found online, will give the information searched for by all of those who do online research before buying. In other words, at present, as you say, they "are not even aware of what happened, nor frequent this forum." But to blindly assume...

Well, we've made some quick decisions, and I think we have been fortunate--circumstances worked out well. It's always difficult to find qualified professionals in Thailand, but we seem to have landed on just such with this "air-conditioner" install. (I'll know better after the system is...

You might consider something like THIS. It's an LF AIO designed for off-grid (so grid-interactivity is the one feature you still desire) which reports the following features: It is ETL listed to UL1741 and CSA22.2 . This 12,000 watt solar inverter is an integration of a 48V to 120/240V 12KW...

Apparently, the legality of shilling is questionable, depending on one's jurisdiction. But the shills work against themselves when their posts provoke inconvenient facts being presented in response. My curious question to the particular issue of this thread which the OP posted was whether it...

Actually, there's no difficulty getting sufficient calories with a vegan diet. Remember that those high-calorie French fries, donuts, etc. are vegan. The bigger downsides are lack of vitamin B12, lack of sulfur, and possible lack of lysine, an essential amino acid, if the diet has insufficient...

The less one is willing to discuss his or her beliefs, the more unsustainable they likely are. Those with the least interest in entertaining any opinion other than their own have the least credibility--and certainly the least knowledge, since knowledge only enters an open mind. Broad knowledge...

One of the arguments in favor of the bonuses and of getting over 85% immunization rate is simply that this is the rate at which they have told the public "herd immunity" is reached. In reality, immunity is an individual matter, and has little to do with "the herd." But if everyone gets the...

It appears that Solarman may have written the firmware for the Deye inverters. At least, their original firmware appears to have been sourced from Solarman, according to THIS ARTICLE, of which I quote one paragraph below.

In my OPINION, this is why you want to have NOTHING connected to ground at all, whatsoever. However, this may be only possible for someone who has an entirely off-grid system. I've shared my experience before in another thread, but suffice to say, I was bitten by having installed a very good...

You who live in America may count your blessings. You have no idea the struggles other countries face. Here in Thailand, I am safer doing my own engineering and design work than employing a local engineer, even when I am not trained in engineering. The engineers here, in my opinion, who are...

This so-called war did not start on October 7 as many are led to believe. It has been ongoing for at least decades, with skirmishes occurring off and on and to varying degrees of harm on both sides. To presume the October 7 attack was unprovoked is to be ignorant of the history of the region...

Agreed. "Honor thy father and thy mother...," is the commandment that comes with a promise of longevity. Sometimes parents have wisdom that their children cannot fathom. Sometimes they may be just stubborn and unwilling to change or adapt: but it takes some audacity to deliberately go against...

I've used about five switchback runs of black polyethylene pipe on top of a 20-meter-long roof (nearly 100 meters of 3/8" pipe). When it's sunny, the water is hotter than one could take straight--must be mixed with cold at the faucet. At night, it's a cold shower. But when the sun shines...

Ahem. Nice cut-n-paste image there. Surely you didn't think that those who "actually pay attention" would miss the fact that said article is totally fake pub-news, and does not exist. The foul language, of course, is likely a dead giveaway. Not in favor of the vaccine here, but there's no...

Implied in your otherwise reasonable-sounding commentary is that those who purchased Deye units were wrong to do so. In at least one case, one of those Deye owners reports having purchased the Deye before Sol-Ark existed. I doubt theirs is the only case of "friendly-fire" in this electronic...

I think some people require the more efficient panels due to space limitations. They require a certain level of production, but have minimal space for it, thus necessitating a larger budget for the superior panels. If one has no space limitations, the pricier panels make less economic sense...

There are other, better, ways of dealing with those "constant attempted logins." A well-known one is the usage of fail2ban, where one can set the firewall to automatically block, for a period of time, an IP address that fails two or more consecutive logins. Imagine if @Will Prowse blocked all...

I can buy Deye in Thailand--it's one of the top brands marketed here. I won't, however, after this. I guess that upsets your hypothesis. Deye simply cannot be trusted. Its reliability is subject to the whim of persons at their corporate office, as has been demonstrated. Any person buying...

Ants are the reason behind taking pains to build my solar equipment rack with ant-proofing built in. Every leg of the rack has a cup welded near the bottom of it into which water, soap, oil, ant-killer, whatever you like may be poured. Ants must pass the cup to reach anything above it. For...

Obviously I'm not @Will Prowse, but in my opinion a small difference in torque seems an unlikely cause for cracking a panel--especially seeing as the bolts connect to a supposedly sturdy aluminum frame. A panel that sensitive is not one I'd be inclined to purchase. I would, however, suspect...

In Thailand, not even the news is free to post the name of the company involved whenever something bad happens. Here it is not a matter of getting sued, though. It's a matter of potential jail time for "computer crimes" offenses. And conviction here needs no proof of falsehood--it can be...

The older I get, the more I see insurance companies as the ultimate scammers. Folk should simply self-insure. If one adds it all up: car insurance, home insurance, property liability insurance, health insurance, etc., the total insurance bill really stacks up, most of which will never be...

And I, for one, would enjoy working on that puzzle myself. Any data yet to work from?

Getting "dropped" by one's insurer is one of the surest ways for that insurer to have scammed you. It means that all of those monies previously turned over to the insurance company in preparation for some eventual emergency need are now wasted and unrecoverable. The insurance company likes...

Those worried about harming the planet from even natural sources of carbon, such as by burning wood, had better stop eating bread. The yeast used to raise the bread consumes the sugar in the recipe, releasing the byproducts of alcohol and CO2. It is the CO2 which forms bubbles in the dough and...

I have lived in Laos, but before living there I had Laotian neighbors in America. At one point, our large Siamese cat mysteriously disappeared--completely unlike him. We never found him, nor saw him again. We do not have proof, but there was reasonable suspicion toward our Laotian neighbors...

So for $175 one can save potentially about half a year's worth of work with trial/error brute force entering of the possible codes until one works. Likely money well spent--unless one is good enough at guessing to win a lottery, or is so poor that six months' work is cheaper. In my area of...

Perhaps some effort toward communication with JK in Chinese would be worthwhile. Does one of the members here have sufficient fluency to correspond in written Chinese? I speak basic Chinese, but do not write or type it; and I certainly lack technical vocabulary. I could say "electricity" and...

I would simply like to know how much SolArk was behind brick-gate. Was it SolArk's call to brick all those inverters? If so, the company deserves to be bested by a superior one, one that respects the rights of the consumers to free choice.

These two sentences appear in stark contradiction to each other. Based on the foregoing posts it's unclear "who did that," but it appears that someone had installed a firmware that was not original to the unit. Perhaps MarVerde is attempting to implicate Deye for doing this remotely? But for...

Really? There are doctors believing that someone below 85% oxygenation would not be walking and talking normally? Evidently, the doctors did not have much experience. I've seen patients at 85%. But my own mother has gotten to 65% on occasion, and was still conscious and talking (not walking...

I admire your tenacity. That said, don't be discouraged if you figure out that solar is not as easy to grasp as more mechanical things are. I came to solar having extensive previous experience with satellite dish installations, television cabling and cable headend design, computer networking...

Distilled water is the purest. Yes, it requires the most energy, too. Here's one that I personally used for years and found quite good: made-in-America quality. https://www.purewaterinc.com/product/midi-classic-automatic-home-water-distiller-made-in-the-usa/ This Midi model produces up to 7...

Copper ground rods, and connected metal frames, are more attractive than wood, which is not very conductive.

I would not call providing lightning with an optimal path "taming" it. I would say that one is simply choosing to dance with it because one is unable to tame it. It's an "if you can't beat 'em, join 'em" kind of thing. Now, if you are able to harvest the electrical power of the lightning to...

Perhaps that is true with EG4 inverters. I have a 10KW grid-tied inverter running, of another brand, with no battery, and it has been performing flawlessly for me since it was installed by professionals.

From personal experience, I would say the Cat. 5 storms are less damaging, ironically, than the Cat. 3 storms. Why? They seem to wring out their water load before reaching land, and are a big blow instead of a big soak. It's the water that does the most damage, provided buildings are not too...

This is just a side-note, perhaps, but personal experience seems to support two possible philosophies with respect to grounding. They are incompatible with each other, and most choose to ground the entire system. The opposite philosophy says it's best to ground nothing. I spent some years in...

I guess they were motivated enough to open an account here: Two posts so far, both identical, and appearing to parrot what was earlier posted from FaceBook. There's a lot of back-pedaling and distancing from Deye in the message: "Sol-Ark has learned...." "Sol-Ark has no control over...."...

I wonder how long it took for someone to get hurt from a Tesla car, a space shuttle or an Apollo spacecraft, a cigarette, a beer, a hot coffee, or a solar panel. Some things, like cars, solar panels, etc. have the potential to harm along with great advantage. Some things like cigarettes and...

Perhaps Sol-Ark thinks they control it. Backdoors are not evident to most people and often escape notice of even the so-called experts. As one example, do you trust the SSL technology co-developed by the Pentagon? I live with the assumption that any online communication is accessible by the...

I would suggest a couple of things you might wish to consider. First, regarding panels with micro inverters still functioning if some of the other panels are "damaged or ripped up in a hurricane," you might wish to remember that micro inverters only continue to function if the grid is still up...

The actual stats were manipulated--as can be proven by visiting archive.org's snapshots of the FDA/CDC-sponsored website addressing vaccine adverse reactions. The number of reports was more than cut in half within about a 12-hour period at one point. I guess they didn't like the public knowing...

I had a very positive experience with SUOER inverters. I had the pure-sine-wave variety, a 2000-watt and a 3000-watt. A friend of mine, though, thought the brand was junk because he'd bought a modified-sine unit of 1000 or 2000 watts (I don't remember) and tried running his drill on it. It...

But your math fails to account for things that one must take into consideration. 1) You are attempting to apply a full year's worth of carbon emissions to a single moment in time for mortality results. 2) You are not accounting for winds and/or distribution. 3) You are not accounting for...

The last sentence you included of the Wiki quote shows plainly that the researchers who published the newer "findings" were prejudiced to begin with. They were looking for a particular result, and they found it. That is not surprising. What would be surprising is to look for something and NOT...

Well, I've used lead. Lithium is so much nicer. I had to worry about adding distilled water every few months as it lost water during the charge cycle. Even thus maintaining the FLA batteries as best I could, they still declined to a point of almost non-usability within about four years. If...

If this were the only reason doctors insisted on the vax, they could just add a $400 or whatever surcharge for caring for someone who was not vaxxed. But I think this report is not accurate. I believe it would be more accurate to say there is a certain, rather large, bonus a doctor receives...

In the typical arrangement of cells, cell 9 would be the one just past the "corner," i.e. where the cells are doubled back into the second row. I would expect it to have more chance of problems due to connection issues. It may be connected with a busbar of irregular length as compared to the...

I'm in Thailand. Sol-Ark is not sold here, so I know next to nothing about them. But I bought an LVTOPSUN, a separate spin-off manufactured by Deye, and it is definitely toroidal. Sol-Arks, being made for the 115-volt market, may be engineered differently; here we run on 230-volt power. I've...

One potential "gotcha" with comparing between hurricanes and typhoons is that the measurement standard may vary. Even speaking of "sustained winds," the time frame may differ. Tropical storm winds are notoriously gusty. Some count 5- or 10-second "sustained" wind gusts, while others take a...

Thank you for that information--I'm looking for a good GFCI device for an entire building....however, that is a separate issue from that of grounding for lightning. A good GFCI breaker does not actually need to be grounded to function, if I'm not mistaken. It cuts power based on an inequality...

From one noob to another (the blind leading the blind), I would suggest that it might be possible for the batteries to have sufficiently discharged that the BMS has taken them offline. If that is the case, you might need to charge them manually until they are above the low-voltage threshhold...

If VPN users get bricked who have chosen to access American resources via an American IP address, this could have rather far-reaching impact. In Thailand, we experience many issues with American services due to (in my opinion) irresponsible network administrators who simply block all Thai IP...

My on-grid inverter works fine without battery. Tell me how that happens if it's impossible?

Here in Thailand, and of course fire ants are a thing here, multiple species of ants seem to love electronics. I do not fully understand the phenomenon either, but nonetheless in an ant-ridden area, one must ant-proof the electrical devices. Here are things I have personally found helpful: 1)...

Yes, that is the claim that I dispute until proven otherwise. I have yet to see any actual scientific evidence beyond raw assertions of the fact that CO2 is like glass in a greenhouse, holding in heat that other gases would not. When we look at the various gas laws relied on by chemists, we...

Well, the system is working, and it's producing up to about 8kw of power in full sun. Clouds affect it more than I had expected, particularly with them being bifacial panels. The inverter is a 10kw unit, so it's not getting maxed out by any means. Regarding the paperwork to be filed with...

I'm not in the least defending James, as I, too, find his OP post in this thread to have been in poor taste at best. However, put yourself in the shoes of one whose Deye was just bricked and you are in desperate need of restoring power to your home or business. Some may have, quite literally...

I think many are depending on the AC pass-through from the grid for their extra startup draw on their motors, and because these on-grid inverters juggle the power so smoothly from multiple sources (battery, PV panels, grid, generator), the inherent engineering deficiency of the HF system goes...

Again, thank you very much. This seems like a major breakthrough toward real quality product options for me here. I will definitely keep this business in mind when I plan my next solar purchases. I note that they have no Victron inverter in stock in 48-volt models (per their website). But as...

Really? It seems hurricanes aren't as strong as typhoons, pressure-wise. I've seen a number of typhoons stronger than this (e.g. in the 880's). I wonder what the difference is...less space in the Atlantic? One would think the Atlantic, having shallower and less water overall, could generate...

WD-40 will leave its sticky mess behind. I use a spray of ether or ethyl acetate, such as can be gotten in a can of starting fluid. It does require a direct hit, but it is virtually instant death to insects. To safely get the direct hit on wasps, approach them at night when they are asleep...

According to the tropicalstormrisk site, they're predicting Cat. 4 at landfall, but the very bottom edge of the category at about 115 knots wind speed. It's presently at the top of the Cat. 4 category, per their latest update. Seeing as Florida has already been soaked ahead of the hurricane...

I've been searching for toroidal inverters, and just happened across another inverter that gives an interesting altitude rating of "< 4000 m | <13123 ft without derating." That makes it appear that it will go up to 4000 meters as well, beyond which it would operate with derating. It's an Aims...

I've been studying online through Hebrew University in Jerusalem for about six years now. Many, if not most, of my professors are Jewish or Israeli. I have weekly Zoom sessions with them, to the present time. While classes are mostly non-political, and stay on topic, some of the professors...

May someone correct me if I'm wrong, but I understand that lithium battery fires involve a considerable amount of fluorine, and it is my understanding that fluorine promotes oxidation to sufficient levels that even concrete burns. Would those concrete walls be of any use? I suppose the words...

And I would love to hear how and where the system components were grounded and/or bonded. Was this a grid-tied setup, or off-grid?