Nix it is compliant, the clowns in the forum you point to are just full of sticker envy and have no idea of how they work even. Their tests were adumberate at best and false.
They have compliance numbers, and were removed from the CEC list because they were no longer supported in the market. This was more to do with sticker snobs and government subsidies than anything electrical .. READ the idiot replies, most of them could not tie their own shoelaces, much less understand anything about a grid tie inverter.... they are the usual arm chair experts, and the world is full of them.
They complied they had numbers, they were legal, and there are still thousands of then running around the country.
Brilliant scientific statements like"they are cheap for a reason" as justification for their conceited superiority seems to have changed since... the lowly cheap inverters are now commanding big money.. in fact more than some normal run of the mill ones... with no guarantees, no manufacturers back up, they are now comanding real money
http://www.ebay.com.au/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_trksid=p2050601.m570.l1313.TR0.TRC0.H0.Xaerosharp+inverter.TRS0&_nkw=aerosharp+inverter&_sacat=0I applied for and got permissions to grid tie from Hydro Tasmania... government authority. They have the inverters on their list as complying with AS3777. The CEC ( clean energy council ) had it on their lists too, and the unit/s were tested and approved by the inspector when the installation was approved and new meter installed.
The CEC is a think tank that the Government uses the recommendations of TO MAKE THE GOVERNMENT SUBSIDIES AVAILABLE. If there is no company to back up the product, the Government wont fork out the money for an installation that does not comply with consumer laws.. so it gets taken off the list of the CEC.. not because of technical compliance.. it complied once, it does not change. AS3777 does not change.
Complying with CEC only makes it available for Government assistance, complying with AS3777 makes it LEGAL
Those know alls don't know all, and the tests they performed are just dumb. The first start of the day from turn on is relatively fast, as it does a quick test, and then connects... ... but IF IT SHUTS DOWN FOR ANY REASON then it times out to the correct limits. They do this and I do complain to the HYDRO TASMANIA that the wind turbines they installed stop these things from producing on windy days... why, because they do comply with AS3777, and they do wait the 3 mins for clean power.. which may be 10 or 20 minutes before they see 3 mins of clean contiguous power. Big wind,mills and small 1mw diesel generators make for frequency problems.... and it is the expensive ones from Europe that fail tests in this area... horror of horrors. This is mostly ignored by the boffins, as how could experienced companies with expensive inverters do this??? so they seem to have sticker blindness when it suits them.
Too many people make populist decisions based on fatuous group think.... and those clowns fit that catagory. The demise of Inspire was a commercial disaster stemming from wildly optomistic government policy ending up with many thousands of very useful inverters with AS3777 compliance hitting the distressed creditor auctions all at once. into a market that you cant use them unless your a licenced installer, which you cant install because the Govt subsidy is no longer available because the company went insolvent, and you would breach consumer laws.... makes then scrap really but not because they don't comply.... just unusable because of circumstances.
Aerosharp were installed as a very popular inverter at one point, but that was at the time when huge subsidies were availabe, and the aerosharps were cheaper than the australian and european versions.
Consequently the low budget and fly by night operators all climbed on board, and with no idea of what they were doing, were designing and selling systems that were woefully under done, and suspect wiring , poor installation started to emerge.. typical of any time a government gets involved with free money. It corrupts the market.
Those established operators that knew what they were doing from the get go, stayed in business, those fly by night operators went bust for good reason, but whole swaths of systems were now without guarantee, and the govt made the rest of the industry cover it. One large operator decided that because of the inherited risk, to recall all aerosharps, as they had a high call back rate. This was more caused by improper installation by new budget installers, but when it tastes bad, we panic and knee jerk a response. Aerosharp were in the wrong place at the wrong time. They are actually very well built, and I have had no problem with any of mine in the last 5 years.
So in short... they do comply, and your gurus are not espousing facts, just industry drivel. You either get tested and certified or you don't... you cant no longer comply because your parent company goes bust or whatever, the machine is the machine, it does not change. You can get delisted from the industry energy council, but that has nothing to do with technical specifications, only industry noise.
I get tired of defending common sense.... they do comply.
So go pick on the european ones, they seem to be running fine on windy days..... because they seem to ignore the islanding, so are popular because they produce all the time... funny how things work really. The chinese ones stop when they are supposed to... and get a bad name from not runnng all day BECAUSE THEY COMPLY.
Don't believe everything you see on a forum.
Hydro Tasmania have not come knocking at my door to tell me my inverters no longer comply... and they know where to find me too.
.....................oztules