What Solar racking system is best?

Question

I am looking to have solar panels installed on my company roof top but i have some restrictions. It has to be non penetrating and non ballasted. Meaning i cant drill, nail, or glue anything to the roof and the roof cant support that much weight so ballasts cant be used to hold it down.

So far I have found a company called hb Solar of Southern California, they are based in southern california but are not limited to there. They have a system they call the "SCIROCCO", and its both non penetrating and non ballasted, and its extremely light. It uses wind to keep the mounting rack down. Before I proceed with them, does anybody else know of a place that can offer this? They claim to be the only ones and its patened.

http://www.hbssc.us/

Answer 1

When I inquired information from unirack about this CLICKSYS racking they said that there is still some penetration that needs to be done just not as much, and the system is actually pretty heavy compared to. And also I dont think barrel and spanish tile mean too much to you, since we are talking commercial flat roof.



So if you really need something that is light and non penetrating like it sounds you do, then I for one would go with scirocco from hb solar. It has an awsome design, I seen it at the solar expo in anahiem, and as a matter of fact I am working with them right now on a 1MW system on a single flat roof commercial building. I'm pretty excited, this should boost my sales by alot becuase of all the static load problems we have here. hope i could be of help



Paul Rockerson

PV Installer

Answer 2

I would go with a Unirac system. Unirac has a new CLICKSYS Mounting system that can be mounted on most roofing types, including barrel and spanish tiles. There is no drilling required and no nuts and bolts as they just click and secure to the roof.



I actually have this system on my office's roof and I got it for a great price. Check out a company called Sun Electronics, as I bought my system from them.

Answer 3

Thermosiphon structures use gravity to bypass the warmth pass medium (oftentimes water) between collector and tank. The medium is heated in the collector, rises to the appropriate of the tank and cools down, then flows back to the backside of the collector. relatives warm water is taken the two straight away from the tank, or no longer straight away by way of a warmth exchanger in the tank. the ideal benefit of a thermosiphon equipment is that it particularly works without pump and controller. This makes the structures user-friendly, robust and intensely much less high priced. A nicely designed thermosiphon equipment is extremely useful. besides the fact that, with this manner of equipment the tank could desire to be placed above or beside the collector. In maximum thermosiphon structures, the tank is fastened to the collector and the two are located on the roof. This photograph voltaic thermal equipment is maximum ordinary in the frost-unfastened climates of Southern Europe. the belief is additionally utilized in less warm climates, the tank is then put in indoors

Answer 4

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