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Re:Sol-Ark manufacturer reportedly disables all Deye inverte... by jfengel on Saturday November 30, 2024 @02:54PM (#42283612)
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.

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Re:Sol-Ark manufacturer reportedly disables all Deye inverte... by dymk on Saturday November 30, 2024 @03:08PM (#42283711)
> 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?

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Re:Sol-Ark manufacturer reportedly disables all Deye inverte... by anon84873628 on Sunday December 01, 2024 @02:43PM (#42290250)
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.

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