Software? For a solar panel? Likewise spare parts? What?

I am pretty sure a solar panel is just a solar panel, a frame and some wires?

The inverters and all that sure whatever just buy local. Those have not been the bottleneck - the panels have been what has been enabling the boom.

overfeed an hour ago | parent | next [-]

Sadly, this is not the first time someone on HN ignorantly assumed solar panels come bundled with scary Chinese firmware in their comment.

It's a failure-mode only those not familiar with the basics of solar can come up with, but are readoning it out from "first principles".

	▲	deltoidmaximus an hour ago \| parent [-]
		It could happen I suppose, but most likely it would be an American company adding unnecessary spyware/rentware to a commodity product that didn't really need software in the first place and then lobbying to make the bare product illegal somehow.

encom 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

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