SOLAR PANEL - Trina Solar
Trina Solar - The world’s biggest solar panel company.
Trina Solar are one of the oldest “Tier 1” solar companies, and are now the largest solar panel company in the world.
Trina solar have always been one of our most popular brands of solar panel. Why? – because their solar panels are designed to perform exceptionally well in hot temperatures, making them perfect for the hot Adelaide climate. They are also made in a fully-automated factory and designed to produce power for over 25 years.
Trina solar panels were also chosen for Australia’s largest rooftop solar system, a 1,220kW system on the University of Queensland.
Trina are one of the best made, and best value solar panels in Australia, and Trina also have an Australian headquarters.
Trina’s new 300w black frame solar panels are far most powerful than most brands, meaning that you’ll need fewer panels on your roof, or you can achieve a larger system from the same number of panels.
Trina Solar Panels at a glance:
- The world largest producer of solar panels.
- Superior performance in hot weather, and also in very cloudy weather.
- 25 year output warranty, 10 year structural warranty.
- 290w ‘Positively sorted’ panels (300w Trina panels can produce up to 315w of power!)
- Trina have been making solar panels for 20 years.
Trina panels produce more power than other brands in both very hot, and very cloudy weather – and are proven to produce up to 10% more energy over the year than other solar panels on the market.
SOLAR PANEL - REC
REC - Ideal solar panels for the hot Adelaide climate.
Outstanding performance on even the hottest days.
REC is our most preferred brand of solar panel in the world, due to their exceptional solar panel efficiency, the excellent quality of their panels, and also their environmental credentials.
Did you know that solar PV panels actually lose efficiency as the weather gets hotter? Believe it or not, some brands of solar panel can actually lose up to 30% of their efficiency when the weather tops 40C.
REC’s solar panels are extremely tolerant to heat – meaning you get a performance boost on hot summer days. This is extremely important when air conditioning, pool pumps, fans and fridges are running all day!
REC Solar Panel REC260PEREC Solar has twice been judged as the highest performing solar panel in the world, in Germany’s “Photon” test – the world’s largest independent test of solar panels.
REC solar panels are made to the highest standards possible, and will give you maximum solar output for the lifetime of your solar system. The panels are rated at 260w each – higher than most brands on the market. This means you will produce more power per square meter, and won’t require as many panels on your roof.
REC Solar Panels At A Glance:
- Founded and headquartered in Norway.
- 25 year output warranty, 10 year structural warranty.
- ‘Positively sorted’ panels (260w REC panels can produce over 270w).
- REC produce their own panels from scratch – no 3rd party components are used.
- Exceptional performance in hot weather.
- Tiny carbon footprint, with an ‘energy payback’ of less than 1 year.
- REC has twice ranked #1 worldwide in Germany’s “Photon” test.
REC has also won awards for making their panels with a tiny carbon footprint, and having an stellar environmental record.
INVERTERS - Sungrow
Sungrow Inverters
Sungrow is a global leading PV inverter system solution supplier with over 31 GW installed worldwide as of December 2016. Founded in 1997.
Sungrow is a global leader in research and development in solar inverters, with numerous patents and a broad product portfolio offering PV inverter systems as well as energy storage systems for utility-scale, commercial, and residential applications. With a 20-year track record of growth and success, Sungrow is committed to motivating more people and businesses to adopt “Green and Effective” electricity, and is stead fast in its efforts to making the earth greener through its innovation in the solar industry.
INVERTERS - Fronious
Fronius Inverters – Point of Difference
A unique aspect about Fronius inverters is the SnapINverter technology. It’s a standardised wall mounted bracket with the inverter on a hinge system. This enables easy access for servicing as the inverter opens like a car boot, without needing to be removed from the wall.
Fronius Galvo
The Fronius Galvo is perfect for household self-consumption systems, with power categories ranging from 1.5 to 3.1kW. It includes the following advanced features.
Automatic High-Frequency Transformer Switchover
Integrated Data Communication
Smart Grid Ready
Zero Feed-In
Fronius Primo
The Fronius Primo is a transformerless single-phase inverter with power categories ranging from 3.0 to 8.2kW, making it an ideal option for a residential household inverter. It includes the following advanced features.
Integrated Data Communication
Superflex Design
Dynamic Peak Manager
Smart Grid Ready
Zero Feed-In Capability
Fronius Symo
The Fronius Symo is a transformerless three-phase inverter with power categories ranging from 3.0 to 20.0kW. This power range enables the Fronius Symo inverter to be applicable to the majority of residential solar systems. It includes the following advanced features.
Integrated Data Communication
Superflex Design
Dynamic Peak Manager
Smart Grid Ready
Zero Feed-In
Fronius Eco
The Fronius Eco is a transformerless three-phase inverter designed for large-scale installations. The commercially used inverter comes in 25 or 27kW power categories. The Fronius Eco inverter holds an Ingress Protection Rating (IP Rating) of 66, this means it’s dust-tight and able to withstand heavy seas or powerful jets of water. Both power categories hold an efficiency rating of over 98%, and due to the integrated double fuse holders and optional overvoltage protection, string collection boxes aren’t required.
It includes the following advanced features.
Integrated Data Communication
Dynamic Peak Manager
Smart Grid Ready
Zero Feed-In Capability
All of Fronius’ inverters are manufactured in Austria and come with CE certification. The CE mark lets the purchaser know that the product in question has met the legislated EU requirements for that type of product. The idea is that the legislated standards should be sufficient to protect consumers from sub-standard products. This quality assurance is part of the reason why Fronius is one of the industry leading manufacturers of inverters.
INVERTERS - Enphase
Enphase Inverters – Points of Difference
Enphase continues to prove why they are considered as the industry’s leading microinverter manufacturer. They have achieved this through the constant innovation of their IQ range, developing a proven track record.
The Enphase IQ 7 Series is the 7th generation of the product series to be released in the past 10 years. This high-quality range of microinverters has a low failure rate along with the industry’s highest microinverter EU Efficiency of 96.5%. The Enphase IQ 7 Series Microinverters were shown to produce 1-3.1% more energy than string inverters in an independent study conducted by PV Evolution Labs.
Enphase aims to ensure that it provides end-users with a product that not only promises the generic benefits of a microinverter system, but also a more interactive and informative user experience than most conventional systems specific to Enphase’s technologies.
Enphase Envoy & Enlighten
Envoy is Enphase’s home energy solution; this is the software that connects the user to their solar system. It provides bi-direction communication between the microinverters and the internet.
Enphase Enlighten enables the user to monitor their system’s health and microinverter performance at an individual solar module level, through a website platform and mobile application.
How Do Microinverters Work?
Conventional systems have only 1 centralised inverter for the entire solar panel array, microinverter systems couple a microinverter with each solar panel. Systems that use microinverters have a number of potential advantages over conventional systems in terms of system design flexibility, ease of installation, installation costs, and system power yields. Accordingly, such systems are growing in popularity, numbers, and affordability.
Some of the general advantages of a microinverter system over a conventional system include:
- Greater system power yields, especially in cases of partial shading of the solar panel array compared to conventional systems that have ‘strings’ of solar panels.
- Remove potentially more dangerous outgoing high-voltage DC electricity associated with conventional solar photovoltaic (PV) systems
- Individual solar panel power production can be monitored in detail–greater peace of mind for system owners and greater ease in troubleshooting in the event of a problem
Microinverters can also be integrated into solar panels themselves instead of attached to mounting (a “detached” arrangement). Installation of systems that are comprised of these “AC solar modules” are considerably more straight-forward than the panel + microinverter set-up.
