{"id":28504,"date":"2019-03-19T14:37:53","date_gmt":"2019-03-19T04:07:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/?p=28504"},"modified":"2019-12-09T14:01:43","modified_gmt":"2019-12-09T03:31:43","slug":"znshine-solar-panels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/znshine-solar-panels\/","title":{"rendered":"What On Earth Are ZNShine Solar Panels?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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ZNShine Solar Panels:\u00a0 Low Cost & Tier One But No Australian Office<\/p><\/div>\n

If you want the dirt on ZNShine panels I’ve got some bad news for you.\u00a0 According to ZNShine Solar, dirt just slides right off their new graphene coated panels when it rains.\u00a0<\/p>\n

But while it may be difficult to get dirt on their panels, I can tell you everything I know about them.\u00a0 This isn’t as much as I’d like, as you can probably tell by the fact I’ve padded out this article with a picture of a giant robot panda.<\/p>\n

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You can see this giant robo kung-fu panda in the city of Changzhou where most ZNShine panels are made. (Image: The Hollywood Reporter)<\/p><\/div>\n

ZNShine<\/a> makes up a small but increasing portion of the solar panels being installed in Australia. They are tier one, which hopefully indicates that solar farm developers consider them reliable.<\/p>\n

But they are a low cost tier one panel.\u00a0 They have a 10 year product warranty1<\/a><\/sup>, which is now the industry minimum, and their standard solar panels have a typical performance warranty of 25 years.\u00a0 ZNShine Solar does not have an Australian office.\u00a0 This means responsibility for the warranties lies with the installer and the importer.\u00a0 Sometimes the installer is the importer, which means if they go bust the warranties will disappear with them.<\/p>\n

Update 9th December 2019:\u00a0 <\/strong><\/em> ZNShine now have an Australian office in Parramatta, Sydney.<\/em><\/p>\n

What’s In A Name?\u00a0 Possibly Zinc.<\/h2>\n

Australians who dare utter their name usually pronounce ZNShine as Zed-Enn-Shine.\u00a0 But on a ZNShine Youtube video<\/a> — which had just 160 looksies prior to me catapulting it into fame — they pronounce it as Zen-Shine.\u00a0 I presume that’s how it’s meant to be said but for all I know it’s simply what the voice actor and director settled on after a brief argument and fist fight.<\/p>\n

Why they want it pronounced as Zen-Shine, I don’t know.\u00a0 Zen Buddhism<\/a> originated in China, but they don’t pronounce it as “zen” there.\u00a0 That’s how the Japanese say it.\u00a0 But ZNShine sell solar panels in Japan so the name may have been a cunning plan to boost sales there.\u00a0 It would be like selling Baptist panels in the United States.2<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n

But as I am a master<\/a> of chemistry3<\/a><\/sup>, the first two letters of ZNShine Solar make me think of Zn, which is the chemical symbol for zinc<\/a>.\u00a0 If you paid attention in school you would know this is one of the most vital elements in our modern lives:<\/p>\n