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

[Jim Stahl]

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 at 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.