Ahh, gotcha. So it's not that they don't make one.. you just had some unmentioned requirements about them. Gotta love the moving goalposts
Actually, I did not realize they made one, I had been on their site, not the best for comparing specs. At $2500 I'm sure I ignored that one. I'd get the Victron for 1/2 that. EG4 has one as well.
I do find it interesting that you are discounting the schnieder based on your dislike for other (unrelated) products that they have. Especially after acknowledging that they simply bought other companies/products. It's not like the team who designed the netshelter, is the same team that designed the SmartUPS, or the solar equipment. so critiquing unrelated gear just sounds like a rant IMO
A little. They bought Square-D too. What tends to happen is over time these big outfits screw-the-pooch with cost-cutting implementations, which I'm seeing with APC. These cost-cutting measures rarely translate to cost savings for the consumer. And these huge companies for whatever reason tend to have the most abysmal web sites. Children writing software again, looks nice but non-functional.
Doesn't make a lot of sense to me. If you are packing the same number of components into a SINGLE unit, vs spreading those components out into multiple devices, wouldn't you theoretically have the same likelyhood of failure? The obvious difference is, in that little diode, mosfet, capacitor, etc fails in the aio, the impact is more significant. But I digress. Different strokes and all that. Based on your claim of it being purely statistical, seems to me you'd want to limit the impact from the inevitable.
Oddly, you would think what you say would be true, it surely sounds accurate, but it doesn't actualy work that statistically or in reality. This has been demonstrated over and over again in the electronics/engineering arena. The first round of consolidation is the least effective, but what happens is the overall engineering and packaging improves when you take control of the interconnect between components increasing reliability there. The next thing that happens is the overall cost drops for each sub-component as the integration get's tighter and tigher, and the components become more of a commodity part rather than a separate custom engineered assembly. It is weird, but I don't think the solar market is going to buck the trend.
Some of the current batch of highly integrated stuff is really cheap with sub-par components, but incremental improvements as the failure points are noted and the engineering is fixed will bring the costs way down and the reliability way up over the next several years as all this equipment becomes commodity stuff. I used to own a component stereo, separate tuner, separate pre-amp, separate control, seperate amplifier, miles of cable, a set of Magnepan MG-II's. . . Now I have a single unit, takes HDMI analog and digital audio, blah, blah cost me less than the amp on the component setup. Lather rinse repeat with computer gear, anybody here ever owned a PDP-11? Heck even the auto industry if you look closely. Todays vehicles are VASTLY more complex on top, but no more distributors, carburetors, and vastly more reliable than the cars of the 70's.
