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CHINA kills all non Sol-Ark branded DEYE unit in the USA this morning.

DIYrich said:
If you buy a deye knowing that SA has the rights for distribution in the USA, ... willful ignorance is not a justification.
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Q-Dog said:
Do you believe companies have a right to limit where their products are sold?
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robby said:
Neither do I shed a tear for people who tried to beat the Sol-Ark and Sunsynk distribution contracts.
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Say you go for a trip abroad. Maybe you buy a Sony product in Japan and a Vuitton bag in Italy before returning home. You're aware those companies have subsidiaries / resellers in the U.S., right?

Should Sony and Vuitton send someone to your house to destroy these things you purchased abroad just because they have an authorized agent in the U.S., and you didn't buy from their authorized agent?
 
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cs1234 said:
I don't believe the Sol-Ark / Deye inverter is toroidal is it? I thought it was also a HF inverter like the EG4? Good for Deye / Sol-Ark if it is though. :)
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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 been making a list of toroidal inverters--I guess I'll have to research these and confirm if they are. It's also quite possible that a company has more than one type of model, with some being HF and some LF.
 
YET.....another nut job conspiracy theory proven true!!! Whats that, number 2,346 since 2022?

Avoid electronics that have to connect online. I won't buy anything that requires an internet connection. Why should my fridge need to connect to the web?

People are dumb....
 
42OhmsPA said:
No the hotspot connection stayed in the US. Hotspot data is tunneled differently to track data.
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Weird it worked for me. I'm on spectrum/verizon on my cellphone and nord vpn sent it thru the wifi if I didn't disconnect from the wifi first. Did you set it so all traffic goes thru the vpn. It has settings in the advanced section to pick what is sent thru it.
 
At least I'm not shilling for any of the companies here on the forums. Some of you guys are some real corporate toadies.

I've said really awful things about Sol-Ark, EG4/SS, and Fortress. The only one I'm relatively nice to is Victron, and that's because they hide out on their own forum and don't come here. :ROFLMAO: My main beef with Victron is their god awful high prices, complete lack of interest in the American market and UL listings, otherwise, they seem ok. I did also say that MidNite Solar makes some really old fashioned grampa looking stuff once too.
 
robby said:
Really, it seems like James whole plan was once again to make them look like the Bad guys so that people Buy Luxpower ehh EG4 Inverters.
Did you forget his last post about 3 weeks ago about Sol-Ark not honoring warranties?
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I think James has a good lawyer. Fabricating false story is very a serious stuff that Sol-Ark wouldn't have any problem sue a heck of out SS.
 
Crowz said:
Weird it worked for me. I'm on spectrum/verizon on my cellphone and nord vpn sent it thru the wifi if I didn't disconnect from the wifi first. Did you set it so all traffic goes thru the vpn. It has settings in the advanced section to pick what is sent thru it.
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Yea. From what I read years ago some provider's tunnel it together other treat the hotspot differently to track hotspot data use.
Maybe James can test it for us with the locked unit in his photo. Lmao
 
kolek said:
Say you go for a trip abroad. Maybe you buy a Sony product in Japan and a Vuitton bag in Italy before returning home. You're aware those companies have subsidiaries / resellers in the U.S., right?

Should Sony and Vuitton send someone to your house to destroy these things you purchased abroad just because they have an authorized agent in the U.S., and you didn't buy from their authorized agent?
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Technically, you were a proper, all nice and legal, local customer in those locales when you purchased it.
 
cs1234 said:
They were working on it. I don't know how far along they have come on it. There is a thread on the forum. Also, we don't know if Sol-Ark completely removed any backdoors that may have been in the firmware from China and how safe it might be from such things. Just because it sends reports to a different server doesn't mean it might not still be controllable by Deye.

One would hope they completely wrote their own firmware, or at least had access to the full code and are able to guarantee it isn't able to be controlled by Deye still.
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Pretty sure Deye works on the solark firmware like Luxpower does on the eg4s.
 
Brucey said:
Pretty sure Deye works on the solark firmware like Luxpower does on the eg4s.
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I would assume as much as well. None of these rebranding companies really strike me as though they have lots of software engineers on staff writing custom firmware for their Chinese supplied inverters. I'm sure they put in some requests for features / appearance / terminology changes to their Chinese firmware partners though. Considering how awful some of the Asian firmware interfaces can be to my Americanized sensitivities, that's not necessarily something I don't approve of, it's better than nothing. Do I think it's worth a 100% markup? No.
 
42OhmsPA said:
I run Nord 24/7 and had tried it a year or so ago before posting....
Here ya go.

Hotspot on with VPN is US, connected tablet and checked IP.
Wifi on tablet off, jumped to Canada on phone, reconnected tablet and checked IP....
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Some devices that create hotspots don't tunnel connected devices through the VPN. VPN is only for the host device, ran into this issue before.
 
There seems to be a lot of confusion between a criminal act such as damaging private property and violating a civil contact between two companies that you didn't sign. It doesn't surprise me that Deye would damage private property as communists generally don't respect the concept of private property.
 
cs1234 said:
New marketing crap incoming..

"Behold, our latest product, with new weapons grade inverting technology!"

I think this would actually go really great with Sol-Arks general marketing strategy. Sol-Ark, if you read this, you can have that one for free.
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Here goes the EMP protection argument....
They have just shown that no need to worry about EMP,
Worry about made in China!!!
 
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outboard1196 said:
Some devices that create hotspots don't tunnel connected devices through the VPN. VPN is only for the host device, ran into this issue before.
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I know a perfect test for this, but it requires a certain type of inverter located in a certain type of place.
 
Tulex said:
It's no different than if you buy stolen goods. You are still in the wrong. And you will lose the goods.
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It's not the same.
Sol-Ark has an agreement with Deye to be their exclusive distributor in North America. There's no agreement that says that I can't buy a product from another market. And use that product in North America. We live in a global market. We are not forced to only buy from local distributors.
 
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