So you moved to the mountains, just get settled in, and it starts to snow. Then you notice something isn't right. The investment you made last summer on a solar system doesn't seem to be paying off and there you are alone and cold in the dark.

Oddly enough our business this year picked up in the winter months. We have four wheel drive service trucks, chains, emergency gear, and we still travel out to the remote locations. Case in point, this photo was the start of a decent storm in early December 2021 at high elevation. The family had been out of reliable power for a bit (over 2 months), and Christmas was approaching. We scoured the supply chain for the right hardware. We fueled the truck, loaded the new system, and up the mountain we went!

After just under two hours driving up the mountain we met the property owner and began evaluating the system, pulling the old hardware, and installing a new inverter. The old inverter shown below had eventually crashed from worn out relays (a thing this design is known for).

The new inverter, once installed with the correct settings on the Magnum Advanced Remote (ME-ARC50) allowed us to not only get them up and running, we we able to limit the bridge between the generator and the new inverter to solve what created the bad relays to start with. The new inverter should last them for many years to come.

For the first time in weeks this family had the ability to use either their generator or solar to charge their battery bank and to our surprise each charge actually lasted through the entire night on a 215 AH bank.

So in summary: If you are thinking about solar in the spring or have a system now and are in winter panic mode, give us a call. We aren't afraid of snow or cold. That's what we do.

Rick.