Shoddy panels?

MEXICOWANDERER wrote:
I would hope forum folks would be savvy enough to ask before they buy strange.

Bingo, why I posted it "Caveat Emptor"

BFL13 wrote:
My Sun brand (Chinese) panels work just fine. I am 70, so I don't care about 25 year warranties. :) or is that :( ?

Dick Tracy eyeglasses or not. Superconducting, flying cars, computers, with

3.1 Zettahertz processors
60 Yottabytes of RAM
and
680 Brontobytes of storage


I'm on your side BFL 13. I do not want to be "here" in 24 years warranty or no. My horse is long past flogging.
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Hope so! :)

When you are 95 we are going to hear about your 5 axis aiming contraption because of 30% power loss ;)

Jim

My Sun brand (Chinese) panels work just fine. I am 70, so I don't care about 25 year warranties. :) or is that :( ?

If you buy from a reputable dealer that is local to you any bad panels go back under warranty.

My home panels come with 20 year monitoring and performance guaranty.

I would hope forum folks would be savvy enough to ask before they buy strange.

We'll know in a hundred years what is going on. Meanwhile, you have to play it how it lies (golf talk :) )

BFL13 wrote:
The market place seems to be operating as it should. :) It will sort itself out.

When governments step in to pick winners with subsidies (where their voters work) we all lose eventually.

The only complication is if the only source of whatever becomes a bad guy who holds you to ransom.

It's not that. Like other posted noted, China plays by different rules. Or - no rules, if you will. With the role that government plays in China, I'm pretty sure that they subsidize whatever they find necessary for their plans - not always immediate interests of their population, but long-term plans of China, which is eventually the world domination. There is no transparency and it's impossible to tell what and how much they subsidize, to achieve this goal. We only see the results, - some of it.

The above stereotype of a "bad guy in market" is obsolete. In many sectors Chinese government - having a top hand in all major companies of China - has in fact become this kind of a "bad guy", since you/we have nowhere else to go.

The market place seems to be operating as it should. :) It will sort itself out.

When governments step in to pick winners with subsidies (where their voters work) we all lose eventually.

The only complication is if the only source of whatever becomes a bad guy who holds you to ransom. Then you have to go to war to get some of that good stuff you need. I doubt solar panels are in that category.

So to avoid that, you might subsidize a local inefficient thing for "strategic" reasons. Should be done rarely. However, trust your local politician to vote for what pleases his local voters.

Note the high agriculture subsidies in every country and the ads to "buy local"---at some outrageous price of course. Some hippy who decides to be a farmer and thinks he should be able to earn a living doing that, never mind the real world.