{"id":888,"date":"2012-01-19T11:58:52","date_gmt":"2012-01-19T02:28:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/?p=888"},"modified":"2012-04-09T11:35:34","modified_gmt":"2012-04-09T02:05:34","slug":"your-solar-panel-inverter-warranty-and-the-law-what-you-need-to-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/your-solar-panel-inverter-warranty-and-the-law-what-you-need-to-know\/","title":{"rendered":"Your Solar Panel & Inverter Warranty And The Law: What You Need To Know"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Your Solar Panel Warranty and Solar Inverter Warranty have tough new minimum standards by law.\u00a0Changes to the Australian Consumer Law came into effect on 1 January 2012. These are good changes which help protect you as a solar consumer from toothless warranties when buying a solar system.<\/p>\n

One of my big bugbears last year was \u00a0a small number of solar companies hawking a warranty that looked great on the surface. But if you were to dig a little deeper into the small print (you always read the small print right?) the warranties were full of holes.<\/p>\n

For example, I saw a few inverter and panel warranties that made it your responsibility to get the inverter removed from the wall or the panel removed from the roof and ship it off to the manufacturer. Ever seen how much a 10kg parcel to Beijing (or Berlin) costs?<\/p>\n

A lot of warranties also had small print that excluded any loss of income from the warranty. If your system goes down and takes a month to repair, that could be a good few hundred dollars in lost income for some people.<\/p>\n

Law abiding solar installers now have to provide you with an upfront, plain English document that includes the following (no hiding the salami in the small print!):<\/p>\n

1) The document must explain exactly what they will do to honour the solar system, panel or inverter warranty.<\/strong><\/p>\n

In the case of a solar system I would expect them to state:<\/p>\n