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Re: [RFI] FCC issues a Notice of Violation to Solar City for RFI Intefer

To: Jim Stahl <jimk8mr@aol.com>
Subject: Re: [RFI] FCC issues a Notice of Violation to Solar City for RFI Inteferance
From: Mike Kirkland <radio.ns6q@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2017 12:44:33 -0700
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The FCC agent told me that last fall when they went from 11 field offices
to 3 they went from 80 agents to 38.


On Mar 17, 2017 12:40 PM, "Jim Stahl" <jimk8mr@aol.com> wrote:

> This is great news that both the cause was located, and that the FCC is
> taking action to get Solar City to resolve the problem.
>
> I wish you well, but fear for others who might some day find themselves in
> your situation. Our new government views its employees - such as the FCC
> Agent - as lazy, overpaid bureaucrats harassing hard working, job creating
> businesses with evil government regulations. Government regulations are
> inherently bad - just let the free market sort things out. It will not
> surprise me to wake up some day to learn that there will be no more such
> regulations, and/or enforcement of them.
>
> The only hope vs. Solar City in the future may be to convince the
> government that it is taking away the jobs of coal miners.
>
>
> 73  -  Jim   K8MR
>
>
> > On Mar 17, 2017, at 1:43 PM, Mike Kirkland <radio.ns6q@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > After an on-site visit and testing by an FCC Enforcement Agent of the ~S9
> > interference cause to my station by a Solar City solar array located 2
> > houses away, the FCC issued Solar City a Notice of Violation.
> >
> > It appears that at least one of the primary interference generating
> > components is a load balancing device called an "optimizer" which is
> > attached to back of each solar panel. Testing by the FCC Agent showed
> that
> > the interference does not stop until the optimizer is detached from the
> > solar panel. Attempts by Solar City to add filters were unsuccessful and
> > only resulted in a few DB of change.
> >
> > The optimizer (as well as the the rest of the system) is manufactured by
> > Solar Edge. I was told by Solar City when I inquired about them
> installing
> > a different type of system that this is the only kind of system that
> Solar
> > City installs. Given this it's not hard to envision that many Solar City
> > installations are causing this type of interference. Fortunately the FCC
> is
> > concerned about this issue and is actively working to resolve it.
>
>
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