Installation

Living the dream of reduced carbon emissions while earning a modest income.

INSTALLATION DAY ONE - 26th October 2009

The mounting brackets are fixed to the roof's understructure. Tiles were lifted, brackets screwed down and tiles returned.

INSTALLATION DAY TWO - 27th October 2009

The photovoltaic panels are unpacked. Each serial number was recorded with a photograph. Exposed to the sunlight as they are, each panel is "live" and potentially lethal. Special connectors make it very difficult for the installers to be hurt.

The mounting rails are fitted to the mounting brackets.

The first panels go up.

The first row is complete, then the second row.

Each row is wired up. By the end of the day the installers were very tired but satisfied. They put in a huge day.

The roof is complete, but electrical work remains for day three.

INSTALLATION DAY THREE - 28th October 2009

Before and after photos of the Inverter being wired to the system. The inverter is astonishingly heavy.

Note the size of the switches below the inverter. The one on the left is rated to 800 volts DC. It is the size of your fist, and is the highest standard of electrical fitting except those used around explosives.

Connected to the Inverter is this external data logging box, a "Sunny Webbox". It records all useful metrics from the Inverter and makes them available to my internal network and the web.