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Uni-Solar PVL building integrated PV array 1 kW grid-tied PV System - Orcas Island.
3 kW of Sharp polycrystalline PV - Friday Harbor.
PV roof system.
3 kW of Sanyo HIT modules, grid-tied - San Juan Island.
Top of pole mount array attached to side of building.
Site mixing concrete for poles.
12V system for West Africa, Trace C40's used as load control and PV charge control.
System that went to West Africa. Outback inverter, Trimetric battery monitor.
450 Watts of pre-wired PV crated for shipment to Guinea Bissau, West Africa.
900 Watts of Uni-Solar PVL laminate modules, Eastsound Bandstand - Orcas Island.
Uni-Solar PVL wiring under ridge cap, Eastsound Bandstand - Orcas Island.
Solar Pathfinder site selector in action.
1200 Watts of Sanyo PV - Orcas Island.
Original install 2004, second pole added 2007.
UniSolar PVL building integrated PV modules - Lopez Island.
3 kW of Sanyo HIT modules - San Juan Island.
Grundfos SQflex controller.
2 kW of PV rescued from Friday Harbor, on the ferry headed home.
660 Watts of Sharp 165 polycrystalline PV.
1 kW top of pole mount at West Sound Marina - Orcas Island.
Thermomax evacuated tube hot water collector.
Pre-insulated copper pipes to run solar heated hot water to the house.
100-year-old farmhouse with new solar thermal system - Lopez Island.
Closed-loop glycol solar hot water pump and tank Installation.
30-tube Thermomax Mazdon solar hot water collector.
60-tube Thermomax "Mazdon" system on Lopez Island. Domestic hot water and supplement to in-floor hydronic space heating.
Black ABS water pipe protects the pipe insulation from UV damage.
Dave Juran on the roof with a 30-tube Mazdon collector.
On the Nordland, bound for installation on Stuart Island, 2004.
Farm irrigation pump, Crowfoot Farm - Lopez Island.
Sand filter on right, middle filter is bypass for back-flush cleaning of sand filter.
Piston pump, sand filter, pressure tank. Screened intake suspended in pond.
S&S Homestead - Lopez Island.
Array direct pumping controlled by a 12V timer.
Small irrigation system to supply water from a pond to newly transplanted trees - San Juan Island.
Array direct drip irrigation system - San Juan Island.
Array direct pumping with DC submersible pump to supply garden water feature - Orcas Island.
PV array direct pumping. Submersible pump suspended below float in pond - San Juan Island.
Peter Corning of Synergy Farm shows off the control boxes for his Grundfos SQ Flex PV pumping system.
Sand filter system for drip irrigation from pond - San Juan Island.
Mobile PV-direct pressure pump and sand filtration system - Lopez Island.
Trailer mounted piston pump for seasonal installation near farm pond.
Trailer mounted irrigation pump with pressure tank - Lopez Island.
Sand filter and pressure pump supplies drip irrigation system from farm pond water source - Lopez Island.
220 Watts to supply a homestead irrigation system.
Stainless screen and float structure for submersible pump used to pump from a farm pond - Orcas Island.
240 Watts of PV for small farm irrigation.
75 Watt tree mounted module 100' up in large Fir tree. Runs slowpump to supply water from creek up to the house - Cypress Island.
1 kW microhydro on West side of Mt. Constitution - Orcas Island.
Grid-tied induction hydro - Orcas Island.
"Tailwater" falls from the turbine after it has impacted the Pelton runner.
Bergey 850 on 100' tower, Mount Dallas - San Juan Island.
1 kW Bergey turbine on tree mounted tower, off-grid - San Juan Island.
3 kW Jacobs turbine on free-standing lattice tower - Stuart Island.
UL 16 batteries wired series/parallel for 12 Volts.
Trace SW inverter, PSDC enclosure, Trace C-40, circa 2002 - Sinclair Island.
Top of pole on side of tree - Stuart Island.
450 Watts of Shell monocrystalline PV.
8 UL 16's wired for 24 Volts. Keep your batteries clean!
Power house - Stuart Island.
16 UL 16's wired for 48 volts.
Outback power systems equipment.
2 inverter/chargers provide 6 kW continuous output @ 120/240 VAC.
Top of pole mount - Stuart Island.
Top of pole mount - Stuart Island.
Top of pole mount - Stuart Island.
Top of pole mounted on living tree that had its top broken out - Stuart Island.
Off-grid home - PV and wind powered electrical system, rainwater catchment domestic water, passive solar heating - San Juan Island.
2.5 kW Outback inverter - 720 Amp-Hour battery in EPDM lined and insulated plywood box.
Off-grid home - Orcas Island.
Off-grid power system - Stuart Island.
Pole mount PV - Stuart Island.
Off-grid home - PV electricity and Thermomax evacuated tube solar hot water - San Juan Island.
360 amp-hour battery @ 48 volts.
Off-grid battery box.
360 amp-hours at 48 volts.
Outback power system and battery box.
Outback power system - Stuart Island.
PV arrays power/pump house - Cypress Island.
Off-grid power system - Cypress Island.
720 amp-hour battery @ 24 VDC.
Trace SW inverter with Outback PSDC.
Off-grid summer home - Lopez Island.
Nature Conservancy caretaker’s cabin - Yellow Island.
In the days before Outback boxes - Yellow Island.
2.5 kW grid-tied inverter and DC disconnect.
Each pole holds 1400 Watts of PV.
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3 kW of Sanyo HIT modules, grid-tied - San Juan Island.
2 kW grid-interactive PV system - Orcas Island.
30 kiloWatt grid-tied PV - Orcas Island.
30 kW PV power plant - Orcas Island.
30 kW PV power plant - Orcas Island. Looking south towards West Sound and Shaw Island.
Grid-tied inverter and DC disconnect.
30 kW of Schott (Sharp) polycrystalline PV 180 x 165W modules.
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Uni-Solar PVL building integrated PV array 1 kW grid-tied PV system - Orcas Island.
2.5 kW grid-tied PV inverter DC and AC disconnects and production meter.
Grid-tied PV system - Orcas Island.
2 kW grid-interactive PV system - San Juan Island.
2 kW grid-interactive PV system - San Juan Island.
6 kW grid-connected with battery backup system - San Juan Island.
3 kW grid-tied PV system - San Juan Island.
2.5 kW grid-tied PV inverter - External DC and AC disconnects - Digital PV production meter.
1000 Watt grid-tied PV - Lopez Island.
3 kW grid-tied PV system - 18 Sanyo HIT 195 PV modules - Orcas Island.
3 kW grid-tied PV inverter - Orcas Island.
Xantrex GT 3.0 grid-tied inverters - San Juan Island.
Utility disconnect switch and PV production meter.
2.5 kW grid-tied PV system.
Byron and Joyce Harrell chat with Joel Mietzner of OPALCO.
2.5 kW of grid-tied PV - San Juan Island.
Byron and Joyce Harrell turning on their 2.5 kW grid-tied PV system - San Juan Island.
Mike Nelson of NW Solar Center speaks at dedication of Greaves PV Power Plant - Orcas Island.
1200 Watt grid-tied PV - San Juan Island.
Utility-interactive system with Trace SW inverter.
1 kW grid-tied PV system at West Sound Marina. - Orcas Island.
Eric coupling the HDPE pipe to the steel. Glenwood Springs Hydroelectric - Orcas Island.
John's new work truck.
Dacia at the Rainshadow Solar Booth, 2003 San Juan County Fair.
Master fusion welder, Kaj Enderlein, operates the Track Star poly pipe welding machine.
Jeff Dyer putting the finishing touches on a 60-tube system - Lopez Island.
Rainshadow Solar’s float in the 2007 4th of July parade in Eastsound - Orcas Island.
Dick, Becky, Eric, and John at the Greaves System Dedication, 2002 - Orcas Island.
Eric with Salmonberry School field trip - Orcas Island.
"Solar Farmer" John Wachter - Orcas Island.
Solar Baby Zane Youngren at Lex's garden, June 2003.
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