Editorial Policy

This page sets out the standards that govern everything published on Go Solar Finder: what gets covered, how claims about equipment are checked, how far a troubleshooting guide is allowed to go, how mistakes get fixed, and what money can and cannot influence.

It is written to be held to. If something on this site falls short of it, please say so through the Contact page.

What this site covers

Go Solar Finder covers residential solar power:

  • Equipment reviews — string and hybrid inverters, panels, and batteries.
  • Troubleshooting — error and fault codes, monitoring and WiFi dropouts, startup and commissioning problems, and systems that report zero while producing normally.
  • Sizing and planning — what capacity a household actually needs, what it costs, and what it can realistically be expected to save.
  • Agrivoltaics — solar installed on working farmland, where the shading that hurts a rooftop array is sometimes the point.

The scope is deliberately narrow. A topic that sits outside it is better left to someone who knows it than covered thinly to fill a gap.

What this site does not do

Go Solar Finder is an information site. It does not sell, install, commission, or service solar equipment, and it is not a lead-generation service for installers. For installation or repair, use a licensed electrician or an accredited installer — see the Disclaimer.

How equipment claims are checked

Specifications are verified against current manufacturer documentation. Model revisions and firmware versions are recorded where they matter, because a spec that was true of one hardware revision is often not true of the next one sold under the same model name.

Datasheet figures are lab figures. Rated efficiency and rated output are measured under standard test conditions. Real output is lower, and how much lower depends on temperature, orientation, shading, soiling, and age. Where an article quotes a rated number, it says that is what it is.

The basis of every assessment is stated. Where an article is based on hands-on use, it says so and describes the conditions. Where it is based on published documentation, manufacturer specifications, standards, or other research, it says that instead. A reader should never have to guess which kind of article they are reading, and no research-based article will be dressed up as field experience.

Uncertainty is stated, not smoothed over. Where the evidence is thin, contested, or limited to a small number of cases, the article says so rather than rounding it up into a confident verdict.

Safety comes before completeness

This is the rule that outranks the others, and the one most likely to make a guide here shorter than a competitor's.

A troubleshooting guide on this site stops where a licensed professional has to take over. A solar array is energised whenever daylight hits it, a battery bank stores energy even when everything is switched off, and most of this equipment lives on a roof. Those are not places to experiment on the strength of a web page.

So, as a matter of policy:

  • No guide will tell you to bypass, defeat, or work around an isolator, breaker, RCD, interlock, or any other protective device.
  • No guide will walk a reader through work on an energised DC array, on battery terminals, or inside an inverter enclosure.
  • Where a fix requires electrical isolation, roof access, permits, or an accredited installer, the guide says so plainly — even where that means the guide cannot give you the satisfying answer you came for.

The limits of what this site can tell you are set out in full in the Disclaimer.

Independence

No manufacturer, distributor, or installer can pay for a review, a score, a placement, or a favourable verdict. There is no price for any of those things. A brand that declines to engage with this site gets the same treatment as one that does, and criticism is not removable by request.

Sponsored and contributed content, if it appears, is labelled at the top of the page — not in a footer, not in small print. Contributed and guest articles are held to this same policy, and a guest contribution is not a route to a paid link or a paid recommendation.

Free, discounted, or loaned equipment, if accepted, is disclosed in the article that discusses it, along with whether it had to be returned.

How affiliate and advertising revenue is handled is set out separately in the Affiliate Disclosure.

Corrections and updates

Solar moves. Firmware changes behaviour, manufacturers revise models without renaming them, prices move, and incentive rules are rewritten. An article that was accurate on publication can quietly become wrong.

  • Errors of fact are corrected as soon as they are confirmed.
  • Where a correction changes a verdict, a recommendation, or a safety instruction, the change is noted on the page rather than edited in silently.
  • Firmware revisions, model changes, and confirmed reader-reported fixes are folded into existing guides instead of being spun into new pages.

If you find something wrong, please report it through the Contact page. A specific correction with a source attached will always be acted on faster than a general complaint.

Regional differences are stated, not assumed

Equipment availability, pricing, electrical codes, grid connection rules, and incentives vary enormously between markets. A recommendation that is sound in one country can be unavailable, non-compliant, or simply wrong in another.

Where an article quotes prices, incentives, or code requirements, it states which market they apply to. Where a recommendation depends on a product being locally stocked and locally supported, it says so — a brilliant inverter with no service presence in your country is not a brilliant inverter for you.

Reader reports

Comments are open.

Reader reports are treated as reports, not as verified fact. Where a fix comes from a reader and has not been independently confirmed, the article says so. Where it is later confirmed, the article is updated to say that instead.

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