Residential, Large Solar PV Installation - Meyersdal

Photos taken during final stages of installation and initial commissioning of the system.

This is a new development, home.

Specs on the system:

1. Design by InSynch and AM Solar.
2. PV Bank = 24 x 210w Sanyo Solar Panels.
3. Battery Bank = 24 x 1200AH Tubular Cell 2v Cells (Raylite).
4. Inverters = 2 x 3kw Grid-Tied Outback FX Inverter/Chargers (in parallel).
5. Charge Controllers = 2 x Outback FM80's and 1 x MX60.
6. Protection = multi DC circuit breakers and fuses. Note these are 100% DC breakers, not AC breakers with a DC rating. A common mistake made by our competitors.
7. Communications = Outback MATE2 and HUB10.
8. Load: +- 70% of the home is off-grid.
9. Backup = ESKOM grid connection
10. Commissioning and Operator training and manual = AM Solar - Professional Solar Solutions and Off-Grid Energy Specialists.

Pavillion Dalrymple - Rammed Earth Wall (Top Floor)

This is the ground floor or top storey to the Pavillion.

The feature Rammed Earth wall has the following specs:

1. Stabilised with Lime (10%).

2. User +- 7 different colour mixes from 4 separate soil colour deposits.

3. Length of Wall = 27m.

4. Height of Wall = 5.5m (including basement wall = 8.5m).

5. Width of Wall = varies from 150mm to 550mm.

6. Hand rammed.

Enjoy. It was an awesome project fro InSynch.

Architects: Silvio Rech and Leslie Carstens

This is the bottom wall, now with some of the fixtures added.

Insych are just doing some last minute touch ups.

Bathabile School - Straw Bale Classroom (JHB)

Cool.... more info to come..

Keep watching this space..

Off-Grid Solar PV System (Mozambique)

Designed and commissioned an off-grid solar power, photovoltaic (PV) system in an upmarket lodge in Vilancoulas, Mozambique.

InSynch and AM Solar worked with the client to take the existing solar system which was

under-capacity and was under-performing and to get it to a point where the lodge could be 100% dependent on the solar power.

Additional solar charge via Sanyo 210W PV panels and Outback FM80 charge controllers were bolted onto the system.

Also additional storage was put into the system by means of Raylite 1375AH Tubular Cell, flooded cell batteries, now giving 2 full days of autonomy (i.e. 2 days of power storage).

The system includes an MLT-Drives 6kW off-grid inverter and a 3rd and 4th bank of SetSolar 70W PV Panels.

The system has been programmed and optimised to function as efficiently as possible and to extend the life-span of the system, by means of load measurement and prioritising and by programming in specific hardware related set-points.

Meyersdal Eco-Estate - Grid-Tied PV

A large solar electric installation in the Meyersdal Eco-Estate using Sanyo Photovoltaic (PV) panels and Outback Solar Regulation and Inverting equipment..


More Photos and project information to follow.............................





PS: The project is complete and up and running smoothly!!

Installation done by AM Solar, design by InSynch Sustainable Technologies (Pty) Ltd.

RAMMED EARTH - Pavillion Dalrymple (Westcliff, JHB)

Breathtaking Project..!!

Architects Silvio Rech and Leslie Carstens designers of this outdoor entertainment building called "Pavillion Dalrymple"

Two storeys of Rammed Earth wall... full of colour and natural beauty.... in a breathtaking setting in the wonderful upmarket suburb of Westcliff, Johannesburg.

This is just the basement floor... that you see in the photo's.

Wait till you see the Ground Floor wall.... 3 times the size!!!

Note: All soils, soil colours and pigments are 100% natural, either from the blending of the available soil deposits or sourcing soil/agrement rock from site to generate a pigment (e.g. the black lines are a combination of the local dark red soil which is clay rich and soot/charcoal from onsite fires all mixed together, and allowing them to ferment, etc.).

David Rattray Foundation - Pilot Project

InSynch Sustainable Technologies (Pty) Ltd, appointed green building consultants and trainers to the David Rattray Foundation to assist with up-scaling Rammed Earth technology to roll-out many community built school and community building in the Rorkes Drift area in Kwa-Zulu Natal, South Africa.

Once again, Rammed Earth was the construction technology of choice for these low-cost and locally built buildings.