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Why solar?
I'm an engineer at heart. Solar is the rare consumer product where the physics is honest, the warranty is real, and the math doesn't depend on hand-waving. Premium hardware actually does what the datasheet says it does. I get to spend my days on something where the truth and the sales pitch happen to be the same thing — that's rare in any industry. It's why I left a perfectly fine career to do this.
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What I tell nervous customers.
I open the datasheets. Most nervous customers have been talked at with generalities. So I share the specifics — temperature coefficients, degradation curves, real production data from neighbouring installs. The conversation shifts when you treat the customer like a peer instead of a target. By the end of the call they often know more about solar than the rep who scared them in the first place. That's the goal.
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An install I'm proud of.
A semi-retired electrical engineer near Calgary who'd been quoted by four companies and walked away from all of them. He told me he'd test me. I sent the full design, the production model assumptions, the inverter clipping analysis, and the racking calc for our snow load. He signed within a week. Two years on, our production model has been within 3% every quarter. He sends me notes when something runs better than expected.