Q.Cells Solar inverter review - Updated Feb 2024
Q.Cells Australia have just quit the Australian market.
No more Q.Cells solar panels, no more Q.Cells inverters, no more Q.Cells batteries.
What's wrong with Australia...do we smell?
Huawei quit, but at least they did a deal with iStore so their fabulous technology can still come in.
LG quit their solar panel manufacturing business, but that was a World-wide decision.
Now Q.Cells leave.
To add salt to the wound, it's not like their solar business is going badly.
In fact, it's growing, just not here in Australia apparently.
So they up and leave without saying why, apart from a vague mumble that Australia's too cheap.
Mild indignation aside, the truth is that we stopped selling Q.Cells panels many years ago.
Never so much as touched their inverters and batteries.
Not because the Q.Cells products were bad, or even overly expensive.
Simply because their distribution policy changed all the time and we didn't like it.
We prefer to buy what we need, when we need it, from a local Perth wholesaler.
Q.Cells decided they were cleverer than that and try to force us to buy directly from them...
...in bulk.
Then they flipped back to wholesalers, then back to direct, and so forth.
I can see from my service list that we have nearly 300 installations using Q.Cells panels dating back to 2012.
I'm glad to read that Q.Cells will continue to honour their 12 year panel warranties.
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This review was written by Andrew MacKeith, Solar4Ever service manager since 2011.
