Samsonite801
Solar Wizard
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- Oct 15, 2020
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Summary, unless it's local, expect service, support and warranty to be a hassle or non existent. Hell, just read some of the threads of hassles forum users here have had with solar panels, inverters and batteries. The solar business is kind of a joke when it comes to service and warranty. At least it was for me and some others. So go lower cost, learn a lot and you'll probably make as good a battery as the manufacturers.
Yeah, and I like to keep enough spare parts laying around so if I get a failure of any kind, I can get back up and running quickly, and deal with warranty stuff at my leisure later. And have battery banks that are like 3-6 packs wide so if one battery pack fails, you can break it off the bus, and at least wait til morning before having to go through your parts bin and get it fixed. I learned redundancy from the datacenter world...
Instead of having 5-alarm fires to put out at 2am, it's always better to design a system that simply emails you when something went down, and you can wait til Monday to fix it, as it just runs in degraded mode just fine til then...