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Re: [RFI] Severe RFI from Solar Edge HD Wave system inverter...who owns

To: "Hare, Ed, W1RFI" <w1rfi@arrl.org>
Subject: Re: [RFI] Severe RFI from Solar Edge HD Wave system inverter...who owns the system? And is responsible to fix the RFI?
From: Edward Mccann via RFI <rfi@contesting.com>
Reply-to: Edward Mccann <edwmccann@yahoo.com>
Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2022 19:33:10 -0800
List-post: <mailto:rfi@contesting.com>
Have any of you had experience with CostCo’s solar offering, called “sunrun?” I 
see several installations underway in the neighborhood, apparently installed by 
“independent” contractors.

Thanks,

Ed McCann
AG6CX

Sent from my iPhone

> On Feb 17, 2022, at 7:10 PM, Hare, Ed, W1RFI <w1rfi@arrl.org> wrote:
> 
> The question is: Who operates the system?  Under the FCC rules, the operate 
> of a Part 15 device that meets the lmits in the rules is responsible for 
> doing so in a way that doesn't cause harmful interference.
> 
> If the installer puts it in and it belongs to the homeowner, the homeowner is 
> the sole operator.  If the installer or utility have some control over the 
> system, they may be operators.  The manufacturer is responsible only for 
> meeting the FCC limits, but especially in the case of Solar Edge, it has 
> assumed most of this responsibility on behalf of its customers.
> 
> If the homeowner can turn it off, or made the decision to contract its 
> installation and can remove the system or control whether it can be 
> mitigated, then the homeowner is also an operator and thus responsible for 
> harmful interference.
> 
> Ed, W1RFI
> 
> ________________________________
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> damichael--- via RFI <rfi@contesting.com>
> Sent: Monday, February 14, 2022 12:32 PM
> To: rfi@contesting.com <rfi@contesting.com>; danmic3ts@gmail.com 
> <danmic3ts@gmail.com>; kevin.kura@trinity-solar.com 
> <kevin.kura@trinity-solar.com>
> Subject: [RFI] Severe RFI from Solar Edge HD Wave system inverter...who owns 
> the system? And is responsible to fix the RFI?
> 
> Who owns the SolarEdge HD Wave inverter?
> My neighbor?
> Or Trinity Solar the lease company?
> Who is responsible for correcting the severe RFI that the SolarEdge HD Wave 
> equipment is causing?
> TNX es 73, Mike W3TS
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