Should electricians be allowed to work on properties which have solar installed

[Isetech]

Lets hear your thoughts.

I know, only registered electricians are allowed to sign off solar installations and all that blah blah blah.

Reading posts on social medai should help you with your response

[Thys LOW Elektries]

Solar systems normally have two sides, an AC and a DC side.
I believe that the person installing the ac electrical side of the pv/ups system must work under a registered person and under general control as required by law that is if the person doing the work is not a registered person.
Then signing the coc for the ac side shouldn't be illegal or fraudulent if you do it.
The DC side is another story though

[Thys LOW Elektries]

The installed solar is not the problem. The problem is the workmanship, knowledge and experience of the people working before you.
The same apply to an installation you have to inspect. It is 50 years old 20 electricians had worked there before you and at least a 100 wanna be electricians. Should you then be allowed to work on that site?
The question I ask myself always is how will the existing infrastructure influence the outcome of my work? I I have doubts I walk away or quote to get things up to standard before commencing work.

[skatingsparks]

Are we talking electrician with 10 to 15+ years of varied hands on experiece or "electricians" who memorised which pins to link out on a trade test board.....

[Isetech]

Any electrican who has no expereince in backup systems.

I have been working on UPS, generators and inverters/battery backup systems for a long time, a couple of years ago I went to a site that had soalr panels installed, it took me a while to figur eout what wa sgoing on.

Now more recently I had to modify a DC control box and found out why it is not a good idea to install double pole DC isolators for each string and why factory made IEC standard "DC combiner boxes" have MC 4 connectors at the bottom of them and why they are not wired directly to the top of the DC isolators.

[Isetech]

The one test that has worked for many many years, just ask the electrician to draw a star delta circuit.

If you can fix machine and understand wiring schematics you can now charge anaesthetist rates .

This solar industry is like the aircon, alarm, CCTV industries, where you can get people to install them for a dime a dozen. You know if you paying R6k for an aircon including installation, you just know what level of installer you gona get, it seems the same thing has happened with the solar industry, the money is in the sales of the product.

Looking at how the prices are dropping you just know what kind margins were added to the product, taking advantage of the situation. I am paying the same price for equipment now that I was paying this time last year and if I shop around I can get some equipment for prices I was paying back in June last year. The believe the exchange rate is R18.47.

Are we talking electrician with 10 to 15+ years of varied hands on experiece or "electricians" who memorised which pins to link out on a trade test board.....