Bloody hell.
While doing the wiring on our solar system, I did get a spark that fried our Outback communications hub.
I immediately ordered the hub4 from The Solar Store. They called this morning to tell me it's out of stock and that Outback looks like it's going under, so no restocking in the future.
Luckily they had the hub10 in stock - which is twice the cost but will work.
The more concerning part is Outback going out of business. I talked to the Solar Store rep and he said it's not official yet, but they heard outback has laid off most of its staff.
So now we're going to have to order a few key parts to make sure we have spares on hand. Especially the Mate3.
This also likely means they're going to stop maintaining the OpticsRE website that allows us to get system data when we're not here.
Really glad we have Phase 2 of our solar upgrade in the works which will transition our main system to EG4, and the Outback system will then just be a backup.
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