Finn's Qcells Panels Review & Verdict
Finn Peacock has been a Chartered Electrical Engineer since 1998, and is ex-CSIRO
Qcells used to supply good quality, reliable solar panels but have now exited the Australian market. If you have Qcells panels on your roof you're unlikely to have problems with them, but if you do, Qcells still supplies warranty support in Australia.
Qcells Panels: Pros & Cons
- Tier 1 manufacturer.
- Company experience with solar PV, inverters & batteries.
- Manufactured and supplied in-house.
- Strong panel frames, broad clamp zones, and flexible mounting options.
- Up to 25-year product and linear performance warranty.
- Variety of sizes, including easier-to-handle widths (1879 × 1045 × 32mm).
- Reasonably priced for respected products.
- Local support with local website.
- Consistently good star ratings based on reviews submitted to Solar Quotes.
- German-engineered, Korean-owned, and manufactured in China, Malaysia, and South Korea.
- Salt mist corrosion resistant.
- Larger models are now 1000 mm or wider, making some difficult to handle (1722 × 1134 × 30 mm).
- All black frames, which run hotter.
- No longer available in Australia.
About Qcells
Qcells is a manufacturer of high-quality solar panels and also sells a home battery. The company is Korean-owned and manufactures in China, Malaysia, Korea, and now the US. Despite expanding their production capacity overseas, Qcells is currently withdrawing from the Australian market and their products will soon no longer be available for purchase.
But while their panels and batteries will no longer be sold here, they are not abandoning their warranty responsibilities. If you are one of the many Australians who purchased their solar panels in the decade and a half they’ve been operating in Oz, you have little to worry about. Qcells has informed us they will continue to honour all existing warranties in Australia.
After-sales support and service will be carried out by the Australian solar company, Zeco. Because Qcells still appears to be going strong overseas, the company looks unlikely to disappear and take their warranty support with them any time soon.
If you need to make a warranty claim you should first contact your installer. If they're no longer around, the responsibility falls to Qcells to handle your claim. If you need to call them their Australian phone number is 02 9016 3033. The Qcells warranty terms include labour costs for replacement of panels under warranty. In addition to the warranty, you are also protected by Australian Consumer Guarantees.
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01 March 2022
01 November 2021
27 March 2021
29 April 2020
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24 August 2022
So far all good though.
It is winter now, so input value a bit low. Still it runs most daylight hours most or all of our electrical requirements. After changing some household routines from night time to day time.
The connection to the grid was relatively painless. New red tape rules had come in play since the ordering of the system, so it took altogether a bit longer then expected.
Our selected installers provided good to great service, but were not the cheapest choice. Especially not after an unexpected and considerable price hike due to overall increase for both transport and manufacturing cost of the hardware.
And the contractors installing the system were excellent.
31 May 2022
Biggest gripe is not with the panels but retailers droping the Feed-in-Traffi by nearly 50% since I installed.
25 May 2022
02 November 2021
28 October 2021
15 October 2021
13 October 2021
I will be using Smooth Current Electrical in the future when we purchase and install some batteries.
I have already recommended Smooth Current electrical to a number of friends
09 August 2021
05 August 2021
Over and above all - tenants get to ‘save’ on their electricity bill whilst we get to reap the rewards through the value it adds to the property now and in the future.
25 June 2021
24 June 2021
- 9 facing North unshaded
- 3 facing North partly shaded
- 5 facing East partly shaded
Luckily the roof angle is about 27 degrees - ideal for Brisbane.
16 June 2021
13 June 2021
04 May 2021
I also tried to avoid panels produced in the PRC, given there is a 25 year warranty period, and who knows where the international relationship will sit between now and then.
29 January 2021
Now it's approaching one year since we first started seeking out solar info - whether to upgrade or replace our old, small set up which included a dead CMS inverter. This site put us onto 3 quality businesses who promptly provided us with very competitive options and quotes. Solareze won our business with their well informed and super helpful salesperson Peter. He came up with the best plan for our situation and was happy to provide us with quotes and brochures for all the different solar panels and inverters we were curious about.
When Rob and Dave and the boys came to install the system, they were everything you'd hope for. They arrived on time, even though they had to deal with co-vid border passes and navigate the local bridge closure and detour, talked to us about what they were going to do before they started, and completed the job before lunch. They were wonderful in every way and I recommend them without reservation.
22 January 2021
21 January 2021
18 January 2021
08 December 2020
Now we're regularly receiving b/w 20-30 kW/h of daily feed-in - with our usage of below 5 kW/h usage (10 kW/h was the average same time last year), mostly through using the dishwasher, TV, computers, etc... in the evening.
We have 18 x QCell G5+ 330w panels (5.94 kW total) running through a Fronius 5.0-1 Inverter.
15 November 2020
09 September 2020
19 August 2020
04 August 2020
21 July 2020
13 July 2020
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22 June 2020
13 June 2020
06 April 2020
15 January 2020
09 January 2020
09 December 2019
04 December 2019
03 December 2019
10 November 2019
30 October 2019
03 September 2019
We generate 60 to 80 Kw on a good day.
We had a $245 credit at the end of summer which has seen us through winter. To get a credit on your electricity bill every quarter is awesome and we dont have to worry anout whether to put the air con or heater on!
29 August 2019
10 August 2019
05 August 2019
18 November 2018
After 1 year of use, we have seen the benefits of our solar system and sized it correctly. Our quarterly bills have been in the single digits and that’s with a fair bit of rain/cloudy days.
The QCells panels quite regularly push our inverter to its max 8.28kw and we are comfortable with putting the A/C on, washing machine and dish washer, knowing that we are consuming our own power with a reasonable amount going back to the grid.