Sharp solar inverters reviews

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Sharp solar inverters review

Sharp is one of those companies that everybody knows, and there’s a reason for that. Sharp’s history goes back to the beginnings of the 20th century when founder Tokuji Hayakawa, in the year 1912, established his tiny metalworking shop in Tokyo. There, he started working on metal writing tools and, among them, was a mechanical pencil named the "Ever-Ready Sharp Pencil". That’s how the company’s name came into being.

Now, after more than 100 years, the company is a multinational giant with more than fifty thousand employees and with offices all over the world, managing a complex business that involves the production and marketing of health and environment equipment, business solutions, electronic devices, digital information equipment, LCDs and, as you already know, energy solutions.

Specifically, the company manufactures crystalline solar cells, thin-film solar cells and solar inverters with a power starting from 1.6 KW suitable for grid-connected applications and for both commercial and residential projects.

If you want to find out more about Sharp’s range of solar inverters, simply check out the products listed below to find the ones that best fit your needs and requirements. Alternatively, you can also check out their YouTube channel here:

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Sharp Solar Inverter Reviews

The model I had was the Sharp JH1600E (1.5kW) which came with a bundle option for a 1.5kW solar system installed 2010. The first 4 years seemed like it was working fine and the highest input reading was around the 900/960W, being none the wiser as it should have been much higher. It was around the 41/2 year old mark that it was constantly giving me an over voltage error. Power SA eventually did a monitor on the incoming supply informed that the inverter was registering 5 Volts higher than actual. Had installer company out to re-calibrate the inverter, which fixed the problem. 8 months later (approx 2 months out of warranty) the inverter failed completely from a (apparently) known and common fault with this inverter and would not have been covered even if still in warranty.
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Similar to all other reviews about origin energy supplied harp systems ours has failed . The electrician sauid the sharp product was a dud .
So with v
Dry low earnings off the roof now do you replace god knows how many of these dud systems will have or are about to fail !
Bit of a concern given the likely electrical shortages !!!
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I had a 1500kW system installed by an Origin contractor in 2010. The first inverter failed within a month and was replaced under the 5 year warranty. Now after 7 years the second one has failed and Origin tells me Sharp no longer supply them. They are offering a replacement for $1900 which seems way too expensive. I'm shopping around as I have a 50c feed in tariff I don't want to give up. I suspect that I would lose the 50c tariff if I upgrade.
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The Sharp inverter failed 3 months after the 5 year warranty expired.

Neither easy or quick to get a repair
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Purchased a 1500W Rooftop Solar System with a Sharp JH1600E inverter from Origin in SA 5 1/4 years ago. There was a two+ month delay getting installation and less than a month after installation this inverter failed and it took anotehr month before it was replaced under warranty. The performance warranty on this unit was five years. This second inverter has now failed just before its fifth year since installation is up! Origin say the five year warranty is on the system not the replacement unit and therefore they are not liable for its replacement!! Also they have no solar installation service available in SA at present so they can offer no follow-up.
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Our solar inverter from Sharp had a five year warranty and 2 month's after the warranty ended the inverter failed. Sharp and Origin energy don't want to know about it. Terrible customer service from both companies.
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Since been installed have had 2 new inverters! I had to register the fault through Sharp and the Customer Service was terrible. For the first replacement waited few weeks to get new one and they never contacted me to confirm when it would be replaced. Better experience with the second replacement was done within 2 days. Just hoping it doesn't break again.
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I had an incident with the inverter, with just 1 year to pass from the date of installation broke down and it took 3 months to be replaced. Overall the customer service was good, but due to the lengthy time I had to wait I changed my rating to Average.
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should have a fail safe system to protect the unit in the event of a total power failure ,if the electricity is cut of eg. work on cables ...it fries the inverter....... sharp in all good faith installed a new one at no cost
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Eight month after instalation it broke down and had to be replaced by the Sharp Corporation.
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Hard to give a 'fantastic' rating - what does that mean anyway?
Seems to be working fine, but I don't know whether its efficency is as claimed.
Only 1 year in, still accumulating output data.
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Not specifically about the inverter, but to explain my low customer service rating

The Origin installer was rushed for time and stated that he'd need to come back at a later date to finish off some things. He never came back, I followed this up with Origin but it was a lost cause
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We have not had a problem with the system, only regret is that we did not buy a bigger system and or a system we could extend, but that is hardlythe manufacturer's responsibility!!
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The scroll button does not work sometimes
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Never had a problem . Very happy with inverter
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I had one problem with the fuses that put my solar system out of action for 1 week.
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Seems to perform well. Easily readable output performance. Reliability still good.
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How do I rate an inverter?? To the consumer, it either works or it doesn't. All I can say is that it works, has not broken down, does not make any humming, whistling, or other noises. It works, if that means it good, then rating "good"
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I have even seen it generate more power then the panels and inverter rating.
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I have a problem with the inverter going into a fault mode if the grid voltage exceeds 255V, which in this area it does from time to time.



Ausgrid claim they can supply up to 240V +10% legally but Origin have sent me some data which states that the maximum is 240V + 6% (or 230V + 10% in some areas). I'm still trying to resolve this but have not yet gone back to Ozgrid with this new data for their comments.
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part of the blue display no longer works properly which means a little guess work is required if I want to read it. There is a second smaller display from which I can read off information so I have not try to get this fault fixed.
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first inverter failed miserably. new one is fine so far (9 months) first one lasted 3 months.rndissapointed it took 6 weeks to get new one installed lost a lot of money in generated power over that timern
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all good
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Sharp has 2 solar inverters in our database

Model DC Voltage AC Power Efficiency
JH-014KAS420-850 1400095.00
JH1600E350160095.00
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