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A Journal of Light Construction editor had a fire in his SolarCity panel set-up as well, and had a hard time getting it sorted out. https://www.jlconline.com/h
by sarcher 7y ago
A Journal of Light Construction editor had a fire in his SolarCity panel set-up as well, and had a hard time getting it sorted out.
https://www.jlconline.com/how-to/electrical/solar-panel-fire_o https://www.jlconline.com/how-to/electrical/solar-panel-fire...
and here's a follow-up:
https://www.jlconline.com/how-to/electrical/solar-panel-fire-update_o https://www.jlconline.com/how-to/electrical/solar-panel-fire...
- Animats 7y agoReally bad customer service. And another follow-up.[1] The old panels get removed and the roof gets new shingles. But no new solar panels yet. [1] https://www.jlconline.com/how-to/electrical/solar-panel-fire-ncis-cape-cod_o https://www.jlconline.com/how-to/electrical/solar-panel-fire...
- ocschwar 7y agoDidn't Solar City rely on local installation firms?
- rblatz 7y agoSounds like they aren’t vetting them enough, training them enough, or the panels are just hard to install properly.
- londons_explore 7y agoI love the fact they blame an animal nest... That animal must have been sitting on its eggs, and carelessly smoking a cigar I guess! No... The cause will have been overheating of the 'optimizer' (MPPT tracker which outputs a fixed voltage) when it failed to a high impedance state, probably due to water incursion. The fire will have happened on a sunny day, because it's the energy from the other panels which starts the fire. Tesla really should have made more parts of the system non-flammable. Then the story would simply be that this guy's system stopped working (or even 1 panel out of 16 stopped working, so output was slightly reduced)
- onion2k 7y agoSolar City could presumably sue the local installer if they're to blame, but it makes no difference to the customer who bought a product from Solar City.