Sun Elec's Free Solar Panels

My name is John Kimball, I am the owner of Sun Electronics. I am the person who is offering 50,000 modules for FREE.

First, this is one of the best blogs and it does a wonderful service for people. It's fantastic for the promotion of safe, efficient PV utilization.

Second, if you want the entire story about these modules you can just call me. I have been researching and waiting on getting these 50,000 modules for over a year. It's not a simple or short story. There are many twists and turns.

So how did it come to pass that I'm able to give away 50,000 solar modules?

I found out about them in a meeting at the SolarWorld mfr. plant with the top two executives, Ardes Johnson head of sales and Marvin Talbert plant designer and manager. They are two of the smartest guys in the industry. My chief engineer and I were there to buy modules. As usual we asked about Grade B's, they didn't have any. They suggested I look into the these 50,000 modules. I do not believe they would have recommended us do that if they posed a serious fire risk.

So who is the seller here? I have been in the solar industry, 43 years, since 1973. I worked for U.S. Rep. George E. Brown (D-CA.) Chairman of the House Science and Technology Committee, AZ. Governor Bruce Babbitt's Arizona Solar Energy Commission, Photowatt one of the first PV mfr.'s, Kyocera Solar. Who would throw all this away just to give modules away that were fire hazards.

Here's the background in a nutshell, as I read it:

2 or 3 houses out of approx. 500 homes had problems. On approximately 3 individual sets of modules the installers did not properly "snap" the MC3 modules together. Over the years they began to separate due to wind, rain, snow, hail, and temperature changes. This created a short in those 3 connections. Not correctly tightening the interconnects between the modules caused sparks, smoke and possibly fire. No house was lost, no roof was destroyed and no one was hurt.

Lawyers saw a golden opportunity and initiated a class action law suit and the courts upheld it. Because of that, hundreds of homeowners had their entire systems taken down including all the inverters and other BOS. They were given brand new systems and 50,000 roof tiles were de-installed.

I have spent months consolidating all the documentation I could find and got considerable help from my staff, friends and attorneys.

We sent our NABCEP Certified Solar and Mechanical Engineer Lek Archaria, to inspect and test the roof tiles. A month later we sent our Solar Engineer and Purchasing Manager Louis Prophete to a different warehouse to do the same. We did not find a single burn mark, sign of overheating, such as discoloration or delamination. Every module we tested put out full rated power even though they were over 5 years old. The tested output matched the Suntech UL label on the back of the modules.

There are several solutions for people who don't want to make sure they have properly interconnected the modules (solidly snapped them into their lock positions). You can repair or fix this type of problem easily. Just call us ! we're always here to help.

I am more than willing to share all our research. I have posted lots of the documentation and numerous blogs on this. And, I will continue work on it. You can see photos of the modules and labels on my blog.

Finally, because the modules are used, we are telling everyone they should not be used on high voltage 300 volt grid connect systems but only for low, 12, 24, and 48 volt applications.

Thank you.

I'm curious to obtain some of these?