SolarEdge is a hardware manufacturer. It makes DC optimised inverters, the power optimisers that go behind each panel, a home battery and the monitoring platform that ties them together, and it sells all of it through installers rather than direct to homeowners. The headline warranty on a SolarEdge inverter is 12 years. The conditions attached to that 12 years, and the much shorter terms on the parts inside the same box, are what decide whether it is worth what you are being asked to pay.
Everything below was checked on 24 September 2026 against SolarEdge's own current Limited Product Warranty, its European product datasheets, its system owner support pages, Companies House, the Energy Networks Association's G98 threshold, Met Office climate data and a live UK retail listing. Where SolarEdge's marketing page and SolarEdge's warranty document disagree, both are quoted, because the disagreement is the useful part.
Compare it against two more on the same inverter rating and the same warranty term written out in years. Quotes come from MCS certified installers covering your area.
Get a Quote →Who SolarEdge are in Britain
SOLAREDGE TECHNOLOGIES (UK) LTD is a private limited company registered in England and Wales, company number 09433777, incorporated on 11 February 2015 and listed as active on Companies House. Its registered office is 15 Chester Road, Colmworth Business Park, Eaton Socon, Cambridgeshire PE19 8YT, its filed SIC code is 82990 (other business support service activities), and its last accounts were made up to 31 December 2024.
The SIC code is the tell. This is a sales and support arm, not a factory, and the warranty behind your inverter is written by SolarEdge Technologies Ltd, the parent group. That is normal for the sector and it is the same shape as Fox ESS and Sunsynk, the other two names that turn up constantly on British quotes. It takes about a minute to run the same Companies House check on whichever brand is printed on yours, and it is worth doing.
SolarEdge does not publish consumer prices and does not sell to homeowners. The number on your quote is set by your installer.
The single phase range, and why the model on your quote may not be a model
The European single phase Home Hub range runs SE2200H, SE3000H, SE3680H, SE4000H, SE5000H, SE6000H, SE8000H and SE10000H, from 2.2kW to 10kW of rated AC output. Those are the eight power classes a British installer will quote from, and on current stock they are not eight different boxes.
The datasheet, dated 29 April 2026, lists a single applicable part number for the whole range, SE10000H-RWSKBF57, under what SolarEdge calls the MultiRange Concept: "one part number for all power classes". The footnote explains it plainly, describing "on-site commissioning to selected power rating using SolarEdge Go". The installer sets the rating in software when the unit is commissioned.
So if your quote says SE3680H, the box on your wall may be physically the same as the 10kW unit, derated at commissioning. A small model number does not mean cheap components here. Older stock still carries per model part numbers though, which is why a UK retailer will list an SE5000H as SE5000H-RWBMNBF54. Ask which part number you are actually getting.
| Model | Rated AC output | Max continuous output current | Grid process |
|---|---|---|---|
| SE2200H | 2,200VA | 10A | G98 |
| SE3000H | 3,000VA | 14A | G98 |
| SE3680H | 3,680VA | 16A | G98, right on the limit |
| SE4000H | 4,000VA | 18.5A | G99 |
| SE5000H | 5,000VA | 23A | G99 |
| SE6000H | 6,000VA | 27.5A | G99 |
| SE8000H | 8,000VA | 36.5A | G99 |
| SE10000H | 10,000VA | 45.5A | G99 |
Source: SolarEdge Home Hub Inverter single phase datasheet for Europe, DS-000279-ROW, dated 29 April 2026. Grid process is ours, applying the ENA threshold below.
Which SolarEdge inverter keeps you inside G98
The SE3680H is the largest single phase SolarEdge inverter that fits the G98 fit and notify route, because its maximum continuous output current is 16A and the G98 threshold is 16A per phase. Anything above it, starting with the SE4000H at 18.5A, is a G99 job and your installer has to apply to the distribution network operator and get approval before connecting.
That is not a SolarEdge rule, it is the national one: the Energy Networks Association sets G98 at generation below 3.68kW or 16A per phase, and G99 above it. The datasheet confirms the inverter is certified against "G98 Type A" and "G98 NI Type A" among its grid connection standards, so the paperwork route is available, but only at the right rating. We have the full picture in our guide to G98 and G99 notification, including why Northern Ireland runs a separate G98/NI regime with a 30 day deadline rather than 28.
The practical point for a quote: if you are being sold an SE4000H for a roof that would have been fine on an SE3680H, you have swapped a notification for an application, and a DNO can take weeks and can impose export limitation. Ask why.
The 12 year warranty, and the four things that trim it
SolarEdge's current Limited Product Warranty, effective 15 April 2026, gives power optimisers 25 years and most inverters 12 years. That is a genuinely strong headline in a market where 10 years is common. Four clauses in the same document change what it is worth.
The clock starts before your install
The warranty period runs from "the earlier of: (i) 4 months from the date the products are shipped from SolarEdge; and (ii) the installation of the products". So a unit that sat in a wholesaler's warehouse for eight months arrives with four of its 12 years already counted down. Ask for the manufacturing or shipment date, not just the install date.
Not every SolarEdge inverter gets 12 years
The same document carves the range up. SolarEdge Nexis inverters get 10 years. The TerraMax family gets five. Only then does it say that "the warranty period for other SolarEdge inverters shall be limited to 12 years", which is where the Home Hub range sits. SolarEdge's own system owner support page still states that "SolarEdge provides a standard 12-year warranty on all inverters", which is no longer the whole story. If the quote names a Nexis, the number is 10.
The Home Backup Interface moved the same way. It is now 10 years, with a note that units "manufactured before 1.1.2026" keep 12.
The communication module inside is a five year part
This is the one almost nobody reads. Gateways, energy meters, Wi-Fi antennas, the RS485 plug-in and, critically, "Cellular Communication Products" all carry five years, and the document adds that the "warranty duration of Cellular Communication Products is the same whether or not the product is pre-installed in the inverter".
So a 12 year inverter can contain a five year communication module. The SolarEdge ONE Controller for residential is two years. A SolarEdge EV charger in Europe is three. The single long number on the quote covers the box, not everything in it.
Labour is not covered
The warranty replaces or repairs the hardware. It says so in terms: "All costs, including, without limitation, labor, travel, and boarding costs of SolarEdge service personnel or others that are incurred for labor relating to repairs, uninstalling, and reinstalling of Products on-site" are not covered and "will be borne by the buyer".
That bites hardest on the 25 year optimisers, because they are on the roof behind the panels. A free replacement optimiser in year 18 still means scaffolding, a panel off, and an electrician's day. The inverter is on a wall and cheaper to swap. Budget for the labour, which is the same warning we give about inverter replacement generally in how long solar panels and inverters actually last.
There is also a refund route rather than a repair, and it is pro rated. The document sets the credit at the current price of a similar product multiplied by the remaining months divided by the full warranty period, so a failure at year 10 of 12 returns about a sixth of the value, not a new inverter.
Your warranty depends on the inverter staying online
SolarEdge lists continuous connection to its monitoring platform as a condition of the warranty, and then says what happens if the connection goes: "If the Product is not connected to the SolarEdge Monitoring Platform (other than in cases of temporary disconnection or unavailability), and if security updates are not installed without undue delay, SolarEdge will not be able to honor this Limited Warranty."
The conditions list at the top of the document is equally blunt. One of the bullets a system must satisfy is simply that "Products are continuously connected to the SolarEdge Monitoring platform after their installation".
Read that next to the five year communication warranty and the shape of the problem is clear. The part that keeps the warranty condition satisfied is warranted for less than half the term of the warranty it protects. And in an ordinary British house, the thing most likely to break the connection is not the hardware at all: it is changing broadband provider, resetting the router, or a new Wi-Fi password that nobody thinks to put back into the inverter.
If you buy SolarEdge, treat the monitoring connection as part of the product. Wire it to Ethernet if you can reach it, write the Wi-Fi details in the manual, and check the app once a quarter. It costs nothing and it is the difference between a warranty and a piece of paper.
The optimisers, and what they are actually for
A SolarEdge system is not an inverter with optimisers added. Every panel needs one, the inverter has to be a SolarEdge unit, and the datasheet restricts it to "1:1 Power Optimizers only" of the S-Series, P-Series or OP-Series. You are buying an architecture, not an accessory.
That is the right answer on a shaded, complicated or multi orientation roof and an expensive one on a clean south facing rectangle. We set out the whole decision, including the Energy Saving Trust's view that optimisers add nothing on an unshaded roof and the fact that the MCS estimate on your quote gives them no credit at all, in our guide to solar panel optimisers. If you are still deciding between string, hybrid and microinverters in the first place, start with how solar inverters work and which type suits your roof.
One exclusion worth knowing: the warranty does not cover "the input connector for all power optimizers with a part number ending in C".
The SolarEdge Home Battery, and the clause British buyers should read
The SolarEdge Home Battery 400V for Europe, part number BAT-10K1P, gives 9,700Wh of usable energy at 100% depth of discharge, 5,000W continuous output, 7,500W peak in backup for 10 seconds, 94.5% peak round trip efficiency and a 10 year warranty. It is DC coupled, up to three can hang off one Home Hub inverter, it weighs 119kg and it is IP55 rated for indoor or outdoor mounting.
The battery is explicitly excluded from the main Limited Product Warranty, which sends you to a separate document for it. And then there is footnote eight of the datasheet, which almost nobody quotes.
The battery "is to be installed in a location where the ambient temperature falls between 0°C to +40°C for no less than 95% of the warranty period and between -10°C to +50°C for the rest of the period". Five per cent of a 10 year period is about 18 days a year.
Now the British number. Met Office HadUK-Grid data for the UK records 44.0 days of air frost in 2022, 45.1 in 2023, 36.0 in 2024 and 44.6 in 2025. That is the UK areal average for air temperature below zero at screen height, not the temperature inside a garage, and a battery generates its own heat while it works. But the allowance is roughly 18 days and the national frost count is roughly twice that, so an outdoor wall or an unheated garage in a cold part of the country is a question to put to your installer in writing rather than an assumption to make.
The upside, and it is a real one, is that SolarEdge's Home Battery 400V warranty gives unlimited cycles for standard solar use. That is not the norm. Read the conditions, though: if a third party manages the battery, cover is limited to 26MWh of energy throughput, and the capacity guarantee is 70% at the end of the 10 year warranty. Fox ESS caps its batteries with an energy throughput figure that works out at roughly 3,100 to 3,700 full cycles, which binds before the headline date on a hard cycled system. If you are weighing storage up generally, our guide to solar battery storage has the payback maths.
What a SolarEdge inverter costs in the UK
SolarEdge publishes no consumer price, and the wholesalers show theirs only after a trade login, so the honest public number comes from retail listings. On 24 September 2026 Lamps Ltd listed the SE5000H-RWBMNBF54 Home Hub inverter at £756.17 excluding VAT, or £907.40 including it.
Two warnings about reading that as your price. First, retail is not trade: your installer buys below it and prices the job, not the box. Second, the VAT is different. Buying an inverter over the counter is standard rated at 20%, which is exactly the gap between those two figures. A solar system supplied and installed by an installer is zero rated as an energy saving material until 31 March 2027, after which it reverts to the 5% reduced rate rather than to 20%, as our guide to VAT on solar panels explains.
A SolarEdge system also costs more than its inverter, because every panel needs an optimiser and backup needs a separately purchased Backup Interface. For what the whole job runs to in Britain, see what solar panels cost in the UK.
The specification, in one place
- Maximum inverter efficiency 99.2%, with European weighted efficiency from 98.3% on the smallest model up to 99% on the larger ones.
- Up to 200% DC oversizing, so the panel array can considerably exceed the inverter rating.
- 19.6kg, 535 x 370 x 185mm including the connection unit, IP65 rated for indoor or outdoor, cooled by natural convection at under 25dBA.
- Up to three SolarEdge Home Batteries per inverter, 5,000W per battery, with total discharge limited to the inverter's rated AC power.
- Backup needs the Backup Interface, purchased separately, for service up to 100A.
- Communication by RS485, Ethernet, optional Wi-Fi, optional LTE or the SolarEdge Home Network.
What to check on a quote naming SolarEdge
Six things, in the order they cost you money:
- Which model, and what is its output current? An SE3680H at 16A stays inside G98. An SE4000H at 18.5A means a G99 application to your DNO before anything is connected.
- Which warranty term is written down? Home Hub inverters are 12 years, Nexis is 10, TerraMax is five. Get the figure on the quote next to the model, not in a brochure.
- When was the unit shipped? The warranty starts at the earlier of installation or four months after it left SolarEdge, so old stock arrives shorter.
- How is it getting online, and who sets that up? Continuous monitoring is a warranty condition. Ask for Ethernet where possible, and for the connection to be demonstrated working at handover.
- Is an extended warranty being offered, and what does it exclude? SolarEdge's support guidance says the extension must be purchased within 24 months of the inverter shipping and applies to the inverter only, not to built in communication accessories.
- If a battery is included, where is it going? Check the proposed location against the 0°C to +40°C for 95% of the time clause, in writing, before it is bolted to an outside wall.
None of this makes SolarEdge a bad buy. Optimised systems earn their money on awkward British roofs, the 25 year optimiser term is the longest in mainstream use, and the battery warranty has no cycle limit for standard solar use (a 26MWh cap applies under third-party management). The point is that the headline number and the document behind it are not the same thing, and only one of them is enforceable. If you have not settled on a brand yet, work out how to judge any panel and hardware package first, then compare names.
Get at least three, on the same inverter rating and the same warranty term written out in years. Every quote comes from an MCS certified installer.
Compare Quotes →Common questions about SolarEdge inverters
Twelve years on most inverters, including the Home Hub range sold in Britain. SolarEdge's current Limited Product Warranty, effective 15 April 2026, gives power optimisers 25 years and states that "the warranty period for other SolarEdge inverters shall be limited to 12 years", after carving out SolarEdge Nexis inverters at 10 years and the TerraMax family at five. The period starts on the earlier of four months from the date the product shipped from SolarEdge or the date it was installed, so old stock arrives with part of the term already gone.
Yes. Continuous connection to the SolarEdge Monitoring Platform is one of the listed conditions of the Limited Product Warranty, and the document states that if the product is not connected, other than temporary disconnection or unavailability, and security updates are not installed without undue delay, "SolarEdge will not be able to honor this Limited Warranty". That matters more than it sounds in a normal house, because changing broadband provider or resetting a router is enough to take an inverter offline for months without anyone noticing. Wire it to Ethernet if you can, and check the app once a quarter.
No. The Limited Product Warranty gives five years to gateways, energy meters, the RS485 plug-in, Wi-Fi antennas and Cellular Communication Products, and adds that the duration for cellular communication products "is the same whether or not the product is pre-installed in the inverter". The SolarEdge ONE Controller for residential is two years and a SolarEdge EV charger in Europe is three. So a 12 year inverter can hold a five year communication module, which is also the part that keeps the monitoring connection the warranty depends on.
The SE3680H, and nothing above it on single phase. Its maximum continuous output current is 16A and the Energy Networks Association sets the G98 fit and notify threshold at 3.68kW or 16A per phase. The next model up, the SE4000H, is 18.5A, which puts the job into G99 and means applying to your distribution network operator and getting approval before connection. Northern Ireland runs a separate G98/NI regime with a 30 day commissioning deadline instead of 28.
No. The warranty covers repair, replacement or a pro rated credit for the hardware only. It states that all costs including labour, travel and boarding for repairs, uninstalling and reinstalling products on site are not covered and will be borne by the buyer. That is worth pricing on the 25 year power optimisers in particular, because they sit on the roof behind the panels, so a free part in year 18 still means scaffolding and an electrician. The refund route is pro rated by the months remaining, so a late failure returns a fraction of the value rather than a new unit.
SolarEdge publishes no consumer price and the wholesalers show trade prices only to logged in installers, so the public figure comes from retail. On 24 September 2026 Lamps Ltd listed the SE5000H-RWBMNBF54 Home Hub inverter at £756.17 excluding VAT and £907.40 including it. Your installer buys below retail and prices the job rather than the box, and a solar system supplied and installed in a home is zero rated for VAT until 31 March 2027 rather than standard rated at 20%. A SolarEdge system also needs an optimiser behind every panel, and backup needs a separately purchased Backup Interface.
The 10 year warranty on the SolarEdge Home Battery 400V is unlimited-cycle for standard solar use, but SolarEdge caps it at 26MWh of throughput if the battery is controlled by a third party, so check who will manage the battery before relying on the unlimited figure. The other condition to watch is temperature. The datasheet says the battery is to be installed where the ambient temperature stays between 0°C and +40°C for no less than 95% of the warranty period, which is an allowance of roughly 18 days a year, while Met Office HadUK-Grid data records 36 to 45 days of UK air frost a year across 2022 to 2025. Agree the mounting location with your installer in writing before it goes on an outside wall.
Because of what SolarEdge calls the MultiRange Concept, "one part number for all power classes". The current European single phase datasheet lists SE2200H through SE10000H against a single applicable part number, SE10000H-RWSKBF57, with the power rating selected during on site commissioning using the SolarEdge Go app. In practice that means a small model number does not imply cheaper hardware, and it means older per model stock such as SE5000H-RWBMNBF54 is still in the supply chain. Ask which part number is actually being supplied on your job.