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Solar Installation on private site within Fishlake National Forest |
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| Hoisting the partially assembled array on to the pole |
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Completed array assembly |
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| Outback power panel, 2 FX3648 interters stacked in a split phase 120/240 volt configuration. MX60 solar charge regulator and Mate display unit are on the far right of side of the panel. Battery box is in the foreground. |
Inside view of insulated battery compartment. Battery bank uses Hup Solar One 2 volt cells assembled in 4 compartments of six cells each. |
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| Cabin in Manti-LaSal Mountains, up the canyon from Fairview, Utah |
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| Cranes or bucket trucks are essential for tall pole top installations. |
Array positioning was not the most convienient, to say the least, but was required in order to situate the panels where there would be least obstruction from the surrounding aspen forest. |
Note the custom pole paint job, to make the pole blend in with the aspen trees! (No, we don't provide this service ourselves.) |
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| Neither wind, nor snow, nor sleet... This is what we call getting the job done just before the snow got too deep for the winter (with snowmobile transport assistance from the owners, one of whom is pictured here.) |
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Outback power panel with a single inverter, and a custom mounting job for the non-outback charge controller and AC disconnect. |
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| Historic Baker Ranch, just north of Cathedral Valley, adjacent to the back side of Capitol Reef National Park |
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| In addtion to brand new installations, we will often take on extensive upgrades. These pictures are from a site where we did such an upgrade on a system whose performance was well below expectations, and had evolved to a point where there were also some serious safety violations. |
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| Before - This bank of automotive batteries wasn't performing too well. |
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Before - Inverter and charge controller plastered in to the wall. Cabling from the PV array was undersized, limiting the ability of the battery bank to reach the appropriate voltage for full charge. |
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| After - New bank of Trojan L16 batteries, laid out and cabled to keep line losses to an absolute minimum, and properly vented (see adjoining picture) |
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After - This location is an absolutely beautiful ranch of old Homestead era buildings, that have been carefully restored to preserve the original feel of the property. Somehow, a standard-issue battery box made out of unfinished OSB just didn't seem appropriate. The charge controller was replaced with an Solar Boost SB50, so the array could be re-wired for 24 volts. That fact, together with upgrading the cabling and terminations all around, reduced over 90% of the line losses. Some of the cabling is not yet completely in conduit, as additional upgrades are antcipated as budgets allow. This is a work in progress. |
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