Dear customers, partners, colleagues and friends of the solar community.
In this issue of our e-Newsletter, I would like to share with you some of the developments we have made in the past several months.
Our selection of Flextronics, a leading global Electronics Manufacturing Services (EMS) provider, as our global manufacturing partner has recently been announced. This allowed us to mass produce at exceptional quality, leveraging Flextronics’s successful track record in manufacturing services for the solar industry. I invite you to read more about our dedicated production facilities in a separate item further in this newsletter.
As part of our expanding distribution network, SolarEdge products are now available through two of the largest distributors in North America: AEE Solar and DC Power Systems. I would like to thank all of you who attended the SolarEdge training sessions at the 3rd Annual AEE Solar Dealer Conference that took place last month. This conference provided an opportunity to hear from installers what challenges they face and what are their expectations from the solar industry. We were happy to once again see how well tailored the SolarEdge solution is to the market’s concrete needs.
Finally, I invite you all to join SolarEdge at the DC Power Systems Inverter University that will take place in Las Vegas, Nevada, April 7-9.

Guy Sella, CEO

SolarEdge and Flextronics, a world leading Electronics Manufacturing Services provider, have been working together in the past six months, preparing dedicated production lines located at a Flextronics factory for the mass production of SolarEdge systems. High-volume production began last quarter and is expected to reach an annual capacity of 200MW.
The manufacturing process ensures excellent quality and reliability of the SolarEdge products. Purchasing of components is made via authorized distributors only; acceptance tests are performed for all ingredients of the SolarEdge assembly – electrical components, printed circuit boards, plastic and mechanical components; manufacturing processes are constantly monitored to measure and maximize the yield; subassemblies are tested at their different stages: AOI (automated optical inspection), ICT (in-circuit test) and functional testing; failure analysis of faulty assemblies and sub-assemblies is led by SolarEdge engineers and Flextronics' technicians; and finally, 100% of assembled PowerBoxes, together with the solar inverters, are subjected to a burn-in process where the integrated system operates in a climate chamber at a high temperature for several hours in order to screen out infant mortality failures.
Click to read more about the SolarEdge-Flextronics Partnership.

• Multilingual interface: the graphic user interface now supports German, French and Japanese, in addition to English.
• Site Layout dynamic navigation: both site views can be interactively monitored: an electric schema (logical layout), and an aerial view (physical map).
• To facilitate navigating in large fields, users can choose to present all panels, or to present panels grouped in strings for a simplified aggregated display. A “magnifying glass” tool can be used for zooming into site segments of interest.
• Tiered access: several user profiles are now supported, including site administrators who can create and manage new site parameters, engineers who are exposed to panel-level and fault diagnostics data, and last, dashboard-only profile for simplified access to the site highlights.

The SolarEdge Configuration Tool is a software application that enables installers to speed up PV site configuration, verification and commissioning following installation. Its friendly graphic user interface is accessed by simply connecting a computer or laptop to the inverter’s RS 232 connector, so installers can easily display and diagnose site-specific data in the field and without the need to log-on to the SolarEdge monitoring portal, when internet access is unavailable.
Site-specific parameters can be specified, including grid power parameters and inverters’ Master/Slave RS485 settings. Installers can then easily configure multi-inverter sites without the need to use the buttons and LCD display of each inverter individually.
Various data can be presented, such as the inverters’ and PowerBoxes’ serial numbers and power output as well as real-time module-level monitoring data. It is a powerful method of verifying the installation is working properly without the need for lengthy commissioning tests prior to leaving the site.