Sigenergy systems are suffering serious failures, with the company quietly scrambling to address a spate of melted plugs and poor terminations by throttling inverters to stop them overheating, running their own inspections of installs and offering to replace all affected components.
About Anthony BennettAnthony joined the SolarQuotes team in 2022. He’s a licensed electrician, builder, roofer and solar installer who for 14 years did jobs all over SA - residential, commercial, on-grid and off-grid. A true enthusiast with a skillset the typical solar installer might not have, his blogs are typically deep dives that draw on his decades of experience in the industry to educate and entertain. Read Anthony's full bio.
Sigenergy’s Terminal Problem: Melted Plugs & Throttled Inverters
Stackable All-In-One Systems Are Climbing The Walls
Is everything in the solar industry now an all-in-one stackable system? It seems that’s where everyone is headed, because they’re fast to install and that means installers like selling them. Stackable systems were climbing the walls at the recent All Energy Australia conference, which is often a glimpse at the next big trends in home energy.
All Singing All Dancing All Stackable At All Energy 2025
Trying to minimise merch can be a challenge.
What’s known in the industry as Solar Christmas is over for another year. At each of these events we seem to have an underlying theme. It was batteries last year, and nondescript white 5kW boxes the year before.
So what was big this year? Stackable all-in-one solutions.
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Poorly Protected Wires Risk A Disaster In Your Roof
Electrical conduits are the tubes used to protect and route wiring. Get them wrong and you’ll make roof spaces even more unsafe than they already are.
So what does good conduit work look like? Read on while we peek above the manhole.
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Solar Spring Clean: Has Your Inverter Turned Into A Bird Nest?
Winter is waning, Spring has sprung, as the temperature lifts, so should your gaze. You may find a hot mess on top of your solar inverter because even the best can suffer birds nests.
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Think The EV Transition Is Impossible? Look To The North
Naysayers claim electric vehicles simply won’t work at scale in a country like Australia. Yet there are countries with far more unfavourable conditions for EVs that are leading the way.
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Daycharging; It’s Time To Deploy Power Points Everywhere
We need more EVs charging during the day. Not just fancy charging stations – plain power points in every car park will do the trick.
It will offer huge benefits, drawing cheap solar energy when its plentiful and freeing cars up to discharge back to the grid at night.
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Cheap Bollards For Batteries Are Bollocks
If you have a home battery installed in a garage, carport or driveway, chances are it will be behind a bollard. While Australian regulatory standards call for “protection”, here’s some better ways to abide by the rules.
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Batteries Aren’t The Only Way To Store Your Solar
Solar used to be simple; but in todays frenetic world, energy rates change by the hour, so managing your consumption is more important than ever.
Read on while we explain how you can make best use of different options for energy storage, and the smart technology to automate it.
Winter Sucks Money Up The Chimney
If, like me, you own a character home, it’ll have some unused and outdated features which need dragging into this century.
In this article, we’ll be looking at ways to deal with chimneys, because with the cost of energy these days, nobody needs a gaping hole in their house.
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