Wednesday, December 29, 2010

Solar water heaters "countryside" four questions worth of consumer concern

Solar water heater is listed in the national "home appliances to the countryside" directory, enterprises and farmers are undoubtedly good news. However, because solar water heater and refrigerator, colour TV, and other traditional mature home appliances, there are many issues of concern.

Product quality uneven

At present, China's solar industry has not been uniform industry standards, the technical level of different manufacturers vary considerably, products, market very city slums.

Install link issues more

Color televisions, refrigerators, household electrical appliances bought Home plug can be used directly, and solar water heaters must pass a strict, standardized installation to use. At present, the market only a few individual large enterprises to provide a full range of host and attachment systems, many enterprises can only provide host (water tanks, bracket, vacuum tube), matching piping, heat preservation facilities, accessories, such as mixed water apparatus by the dealer from the market to purchase offer to the user, the problem is difficult to guarantee quality.

Poor environmental adaptability

Water quality in rural areas are relatively high, acid and alkali, solar water heaters use one or two years after the very prone to tank corrosion fouling, etc. In addition, the winter cold in northern China, because of poor insulation, pipe freezing up sometimes, causing many solar water heater is in "hibernation" State, the farmers in greatest need, when they don't.

After-sales service of unsound

The vast majority of solar enterprises in rural areas were not equipped with perfect service network, the service can not be guaranteed, solar water heaters in the use process when problems arise, users may only be looked at "solar" sigh.

On rural users, buy solar water heaters in addition to bath, also used for feeding animals, poultry and laundry, cooking, etc., only provide persistent, large amounts of hot water, meet life, producing two features of solar water heaters can be rural users. Therefore, compared with other household appliances, solar water quality problems in particular importance. If a gatekeeper is not strict, a large number of quality problems of solar water heater inflow rural markets, will give the solar industry and rural market opening of endless activities, not only would undermine farmers ' interests, influence the image of the party and Government, but also throws a crisis of confidence, resulting in the loss of an entire industry of solar water heater market in rural areas.

Taking into account the characteristics of the solar water heater, his "countryside" policy should not be simple copying other home appliances "maximum price" mode, but should follow the principle of quality first. If the profit is too low, the enterprise will be the pursuit of sales, at the expense of quality, service, and other key factors. Therefore, solar water heaters "countryside" must put quality first, the price is subject to quality; in subsidies, respond to different classes of products take different subsidy policies, low price and without subsidies, subsidies, in the price of high-priced high subsidies to encourage rural users purchase quality products.

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