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Maintenance & inspections — Newcastle & the Hunter
Keep the system earning its keep
Health checks, fault finding, repairs and certification for solar systems across Newcastle, Lake Macquarie and the Hunter — whoever installed them.
Most underperforming systems are fixable
Solar is low maintenance, not no maintenance. Panels drop output as they soil, isolators degrade in coastal air, connections work loose, and a single failing string can quietly cost you hundreds a year without ever throwing an error you'd notice.
We inspect the array, test the strings, check the switchboard and isolators, review your monitoring history and tell you exactly what's underperforming and what it's costing. Then you decide what's worth doing.
We service systems we didn't install. If yours was put in by a company that's since disappeared — common enough around Newcastle — we can take it on and get it documented properly.
Get your estimatePerformance health check
String testing and monitoring review against what the system should be producing.
Isolator & switchboard check
The components that fail first in coastal Newcastle conditions.
Fault finding
Diagnosing the cause when output drops or the inverter starts throwing errors.
Certification & inspection
Documentation and compliance checks for systems that never got them.
Repairs & replacements
Panel, inverter and isolator replacement with warranty claims handled for you.
Pre-battery assessment
Checking an existing system is sound before storage gets added to it.
Questions
Straight answers
How often should solar be serviced?
A check every couple of years suits most Newcastle homes, and sooner if output has dropped, you're near the coast, or the system has never been inspected.
Will you service a system you didn't install?
Yes. A lot of our service work is on systems installed by companies that no longer exist.
How do I know my system is underperforming?
Compare your current generation to the same season last year. A steady decline, or one string producing noticeably less than the others, is worth investigating.
Do I need an inspection before adding a battery?
We always assess the existing system first. Adding storage to a system with tired isolators or a marginal switchboard just builds a problem in.
Further reading
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