For what? They didn't send the signal.

So? They’re responsible for importing the devices. They have an exclusive contract. Do your due diligence before offloading the risk to your customers.

It’s like if Ford outsourced faulty brake systems, had a bunch of cars crash because of it, and then say “it’s not our fault, we didn’t actually make the brake system”.

Right. You can close down the (smallish, veteran-owned) American company. But the manufacturer will almost certainly find a new importer, who either doesn't know or knows and doesn't care.

You can put a ban on the import but it's really hard to enforce. They'll just put on a different nameplate.

It would be great if American companies did more due diligence, but that increases costs. And we've just seen how grumpy Americans get when prices go up.

> You can close down the (smallish, veteran-owned) American company.

This is marketing fluff from the company. Who cares that they're vet-owned? They've been around for 10 years, they are not new to the solar game. They even claim to be an industry leader, if we're trusting their word.

> It would be great if American companies did more due diligence, but that increases costs.

How much is it going to cost to either replace all the inverters sold, or remedy whatever the gripe is with the manufacturer? How much is the outage going to cost across the (tens? hundreds?) of thousands of inverters sold?

Y'all realize that Sol-Ark devices are the ones that didn't shut down, right? Because they're the ones with the exclusive contract.

You're hypothesizing about the exact opposite of the real situation.

I don't think that analogy holds. The brake system wasn't faulty. Someone deliberately sabotaged it after it was sold.

I don’t think it’s the Sol-Ark branded inverters that shut down, but Deye inverters that people imported via eg aliexpress?