My advice on Solar City is to avoid them at all costs. Their systems, manufactured by SolarEdge, generate horrendous broadband RF noise. One of my neighbors installed a Solar City system on his house and ever since, I've been plagued with extremely bad RF noise, especially on 6m, whenever I beam in the direction of his house. On 50 MHz, it raises my noise floor by 25 dB, which makes it impossible to work anything but very strong signals in the direction of the neighbor's house.
The neighbor has been very cooperative in trying to work with Solar City to get the problem fixed for me, but Solar City is technically incompetent or not seriously interested, or both, in trying to eliminate the noise. They claimed the noise was originating in their optimizers, so they replaced them with different units. However, that barely made a dent in the noise. I ran some tests and determined that both the inverter and the optimizers are generating noise. At this point Solar City is trying to wash their hands of the whole mess. The neighbor leases the system from Solar City, so neither he nor I can really make any modifications to the hardware, like adding chokes and the like. I would like to get the FCC on the case, but I seriously doubt that will ever come to pass. ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
