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littleharbor2 said:
Individual electrical components on the circuit boards are most likely made in China but for the most part their stuff is built in Washington state. They are the engineers that started Trace, then Xantrex, then Outback and now Midnite Solar. They are probably the most "made in the USA" solar equipment you will find. .
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Here is what I replied with on the MidNite forum....

You are correct in that everything except those couple of DIY units are all made in Arlington, WA USA

However, parts come from all over. Raw PCBs come from China or Taiwan. Aluminum castings come from China and Thailand.

FETs come from anywhere but not China. Electrolytics come from China and the best capacitor manufacturer in the world.

Resistors and small caps ? Not sure where but a lot I am sure come from China.

Connectors... Not sure but the Classic terminal block is made here in Arlington from plastic made in China and square terminals from I don't know where.

That's the short story. But we actually build things here as well as population of the PCBs and testing etc.

There was a video I made about 8 years ago of our production facility which was in another building at the time.

BTW, Schneider and OutBack are built in India.

boB

EDiT: SHeet metal and copper bus bars are all done locally. Custom plastic comes from China mainly.

Domestic custom parts are very expensive but that's how we roll at the moment. Same with screws nuts and bolts and solder and all that.
 
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houseofancients said:
Really Robby, you want me to pull up the court case against lion energy again where they blatantly confess they are merely reselling and rebadging Deye inverters .
Give it a rest already man
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Go ahead, you obviously do not realize that the case involved Deye trying to go around Sol-Ark and sell three phase commercial 30K & 60K units in North America Directly. That is why Sol-Ark decided to start selling them right after that case.

Please I am still waiting on you to contact Deye or your Good Friend Kieth from Sunsync and have them straighten this all out. It's obvious according to you that Sol-Ark has been lying and worst yet they have done it publicly on a forum. So this should mean some money for your friends at Deye when they see this kind of slanderous information posted on the Web by their lowly distributor. :ROFLMAO:
 
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I do have a Deye 8k that is supposedly only 2ish years old on my bench, and a Sol-Ark 12k on the wall that is 1 year old, and without opening up the top where all the main units are to see, the rest is VERY different IMO. I want to do a video comparing the 2 once I have more experience with the unit.

I'm guessing Sol-Ark is not responsible for engineering these differences? Which IMO the differences are almost unanimously better for the Sol-Ark.
 
Lt.Dan said:
I do have a Deye 8k that is supposedly only 2ish years old on my bench, and a Sol-Ark 12k on the wall that is 1 year old, and without opening up the top where all the main units are to see, the rest is VERY different IMO. I want to do a video comparing the 2 once I have more experience with the unit.

I'm guessing Sol-Ark is not responsible for engineering these differences? Which IMO the differences are almost unanimously better for the Sol-Ark.
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Open them up I'd say
 
Lt.Dan said:
I do have a Deye 8k that is supposedly only 2ish years old on my bench, and a Sol-Ark 12k on the wall that is 1 year old, and without opening up the top where all the main units are to see, the rest is VERY different IMO. I want to do a video comparing the 2 once I have more experience with the unit.

I'm guessing Sol-Ark is not responsible for engineering these differences? Which IMO the differences are almost unanimously better for the Sol-Ark.
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Sol-Ark does all their Inverter engineering in house and also Firmware.
If they make changes they send them to Deye and they are implemented.
This is how most US companies like Apple operate.
Design in the USA and then letting Cheap Chinese labor manufacturer the item.
 
robby said:
Go ahead, you obviously do not realize that the case involved Deye trying to go around Sol-Ark and sell three phase commercial 30K & 60K units in North America Directly. That is why Sol-Ark decided to start selling them right after that case.

Please I am still waiting on you to contact Deye or your Good Friend Kieth from Sunsync and have them straighten this all out. It's obvious according to you that Sol-Ark has been lying and worst yet they have done it publicly on a forum. So this should mean some money for your friends at Deye when they see this kind of slanderous information posted on the Web by their lowly distributor. :ROFLMAO:
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Same old song...
Btw i would encourage you to at minimum get names right, and I think you haven't even read that court case .

It was actually about lion energy integrating the Deye 8k (without display) with their batteries, for about half the price Sol-ark was charging

I think you might have a severe case of ostrich tactics , sticking your head on the sand.

Anyway , I'll leave it right there...
To quote Gandhi " one shouldn't agrue with the ignorant, nor the stupid, as both will waste ones time"
 
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houseofancients said:
Same old song...
Btw i would encourage you to at minimum get names right, and I think you haven't even read that court case .

It was actually about lion energy integrating the Deye 8k (without display) with their batteries, for about half the price Sol-ark was charging

I think you might have a severe case of ostrich tactics , sticking your head on the sand.

Anyway , I'll leave it right there...
To quote Gandhi " one shouldn't agrue with the ignorant, nor the stupid, as both will waste ones time"
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Obviously you do not know about the other case.
The Lion Energy one was a straight forward case of Deye not supposed to be selling to them and Lion energy trying to sell in Sol-Arks market.
 
plongson said:
I'm the OP and though some who commented, and will remain nameless, thought (I'm guessing) this was an inappropriate post...for my first post, the fact remains...I am not a novice, I've lived off grid for many years and my original opinion still stands...

I don't like the "MADE IN USA by veterans in Plano" veiled deception...and then upon hanging the unit on the wall one see the truth.
Like a frigg'n dumb ass, I bragged to my off-grid neighbors, "Hey this inverter is made right here!!"

Now's who's the fool? Yep...it's all about "Buyer Beware" and I was fooled. Maybe that's what ticks me off the most...a sucker born every minute.

I'm gonna be around here...on and off and I'm not a troll. If that is upsetting, so be it.

Paul
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plongson said:
I'm the OP and though some who commented, and will remain nameless, thought (I'm guessing) this was an inappropriate post...for my first post, the fact remains...I am not a novice, I've lived off grid for many years and my original opinion still stands...

I don't like the "MADE IN USA by veterans in Plano" veiled deception...and then upon hanging the unit on the wall one see the truth.
Like a frigg'n dumb ass, I bragged to my off-grid neighbors, "Hey this inverter is made right here!!"

Now's who's the fool? Yep...it's all about "Buyer Beware" and I was fooled. Maybe that's what ticks me off the most...a sucker born every minute.

I'm gonna be around here...on and off and I'm not a troll. If that is upsetting, so be it.

Paul
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The lawyer said that we can advertise it as a 48kgpt.
 
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