[RFI] FCC issues a Notice of Violation to Solar City for RFI Inteferance

[David Harmon]

Indeed!!
Stick with it Mike and make that irresponsible mfgr step up and quiet that
junk equipment down.

73

David Harmon
K6XYZ
Sperry, OK


-----Original Message-----
From: RFI [mailto:rfi-bounces at contesting.com] On Behalf Of WD8ARZ
Sent: Friday, March 17, 2017 12:49 PM
To: rfi at contesting.com
Subject: Re: [RFI] FCC issues a Notice of Violation to Solar City for RFI
Inteferance

Well done Mike, and thank you so much for taking the action you have and
keeping all of us informed about it. 73 from Bill - WD8ARZ

On 3/17/2017 1:43 PM, Mike Kirkland 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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