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Yeah, I think I need a quality installer!
My job, I'm a solar installer and I'm an electrician! We do both, we do electrical work and solar installs.
On this particular house we're doing 20 panels. It will take us about half the day, about
four hours or somewhere around there.
We use high quality gear, just for the pure reason we want to do the job once and we don't
want to come back.
A good job, is to get an installer who has pride in his work. Ask him, what jobs he's
done before, has he got any photographs? Most installers should have photographs readily
available for you to have a look at. Equally if they are happy to disclose an address you
might want to do a drive by in your car and just see what it looks like in the street.
If you simple little things, you stop any damage like guards on the gutters where the
ladders touch and drop sheets to catch any mess you might make.
Most of all communication with your client. If they've got any concerns then we deal with them.
Yes, well you hear all the horror stories in the news and read them in the papers but
what I would say is just check the credentials just to check if they are accredited solar
installers with Clean Energy Council.
Also check to see if they are licensed electricians. Ask to see their ID!
The inverters get electricity from the solar panels, DC voltage from the solar panels,
they convert the DC into AC and feed it back into your house or back into the grid.
Well, we've got a checklist, also we fill in a test sheet which records all the results
and gives a comparison for any future checks at a later date.
Our job, we have at least 2-3 people on the roof so we're always checking each other's
work. We check the voltages at the end of the job, we check the ampage at the end of
the job (the current) and we check the system functions correctly.
This is all recorded and documented for an audit at any time.
Yeah if you look generally at an installation you can tell if the panels are square with
the titles.
If there is a wave in the panels, they should all be flush with each other. Equally any
cables hanging down should be tied back up.
Things like tiles put back down correctly. Even if you re-routed the switch board to
see how the cables have been dressing to the board and the inverter . . . how it looks.
It is straight, is it neat, is it weather proof?
A fast installation is not necessarily a good one. Where you get an installer who's experienced
they are generally quick as we are but we also pride ourselves on doing a good job because
we don't want to get called back.
We have pride in our job!