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I'm still in the office having now done a 6 hour evening shift int he office following an 8 our stint on site installing today, all because the EU announcement has now started to majorly bugger up the supply chain even for the none chinese panels - ie the panels we've been quoting on for the last month because they shouldn't have been affected.
We had 2 jobs for next week, using Hyundai 220Wp mono and Romag 250Wp poly respectively, neither of which used any chinese parts, both of which we'd been assured had no supply chain issues, and both of which we placed the order for last week (or tried to).
Turns out that actually Romag have sold out for the month, and have been gazumped by other manufacturers for the taiwanese solar cells they'd put an extra order in for, so can now only offer 245Wp poly panels at a tenner more than their previous price for the 250Wp polys and no chance of delivery before the back end of the month (now saying nothing til start of May for new orders)... and some git bought the last of the 220Wp hyundais from Dulas in an order of 200 panels the night before we went to order them, and it appears that the country has been sucked dry of either those or the 218wp version segen had been stocking until a few weeks back, and from all accounts it looks like Hyundai might even have stopped making them.
Still, picked up a bargain of the last of the cheap upsolar 240Wp poly panels to replace a 4kWp romag with a 4.8kWp upsolar system for one customer who seems pretty happy with that idea, and bit the bullet and went for the more expensive 250Wp Hyundai panels instead for another customer giving a slightly better system as well, then remembered we'd still got an odd 250Wp hyundai panel lurking in the warehouse looking for a home as well....... so it's turned out alright I think, though it's probably cost us £4-500 extra from our megre margins, but really, I needed this sort of messing about again like I needed a hole in the head.
I'm sorely tempted to take the AFASE campaign up on their request to go to Brussels to meet the idiots directly who're responsible for this fiasco.... but at this rate I might need to hitch over there or something.
Actually I'm wondering about an alternative tactic of an industry wide boycott of those EU manufacturers who pushed for this scheme to happen... that's if they're not already too scared to actually come out publicly with their support for 'ProSun' .
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We had 2 jobs for next week, using Hyundai 220Wp mono and Romag 250Wp poly respectively, neither of which used any chinese parts, both of which we'd been assured had no supply chain issues, and both of which we placed the order for last week (or tried to).
Turns out that actually Romag have sold out for the month, and have been gazumped by other manufacturers for the taiwanese solar cells they'd put an extra order in for, so can now only offer 245Wp poly panels at a tenner more than their previous price for the 250Wp polys and no chance of delivery before the back end of the month (now saying nothing til start of May for new orders)... and some git bought the last of the 220Wp hyundais from Dulas in an order of 200 panels the night before we went to order them, and it appears that the country has been sucked dry of either those or the 218wp version segen had been stocking until a few weeks back, and from all accounts it looks like Hyundai might even have stopped making them.
Still, picked up a bargain of the last of the cheap upsolar 240Wp poly panels to replace a 4kWp romag with a 4.8kWp upsolar system for one customer who seems pretty happy with that idea, and bit the bullet and went for the more expensive 250Wp Hyundai panels instead for another customer giving a slightly better system as well, then remembered we'd still got an odd 250Wp hyundai panel lurking in the warehouse looking for a home as well....... so it's turned out alright I think, though it's probably cost us £4-500 extra from our megre margins, but really, I needed this sort of messing about again like I needed a hole in the head.
I'm sorely tempted to take the AFASE campaign up on their request to go to Brussels to meet the idiots directly who're responsible for this fiasco.... but at this rate I might need to hitch over there or something.
Actually I'm wondering about an alternative tactic of an industry wide boycott of those EU manufacturers who pushed for this scheme to happen... that's if they're not already too scared to actually come out publicly with their support for 'ProSun' .
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