Strawbale Home with 1kW 6Panel PowerSeries PS1200 Mount

For 4,6,8 and 10 panel mounts, are offered with production available immediately and shipping within 5 days.  There is also a manual pointing "Swivel option" that allows you to point the array by hand up to 120 degrees to take advantage of morning or afternoon sun. The best part is delivery and can be 5 days or less. When you are investing $6-10,000 in solar panels you want them safe and secure and also producing the maximum energy they can. This is the system to do it. TRUE-NORTH also offers a full line of PV panels including Evergreen, Sanyo, Day4, Sharp, GE, BP and others from $7 to as little as $4/watt or less depending on quantity.

Typical small home hybrid power installation ~1kWSolar and 1kW Wind

	Unique but UNIVERSAL Channellox extrusion

SOLAR MOUNTING IDEAS

Lots has been written about Solar PV and there are whole courses on how to select and install panels. . . . BUT . . for a couple of worthwhile ideas you don't see most places check out how to get the most from your installation with Trackers and "Top-of-Pole" or pedestal mounts that are better in snowy climates, and will improve annual energy production over roof mounted systems. . . . Anywhere in Canada, and especially during cold sunny weather you can often produce more power from the same panels than our American friends get, even in the sunnier regions to the south . Check the links above to learn more about why that's possible and how to do it.

"Quick and Easy" repoint the whole array in 26 seconds including the walk over to it (see it on YouTube )

Here's a simple suggestion for solar PV that seems to work best in Northern Climates. First of all Solar PV in Canada is often more efficient than PV in Arizona because in hot places (like 90-100 Deg F) the panels are less efficient and do not reach full RATED output power . . . and in cold "snow covered" locations with full sun the reflections off the snow can add quite a bit more energy than off desert scrub. As a result PV solar panels in cold climates can exceed 110% of their rated power. In northern climates there is a wide variation between the optimum summer and winter solar angles and PV arrays can benefit a fair bit from changing their elevation angle from summer to winter . . unlike say Florida where the sun never gets very low to the horizon at noon like it does in much of Canada during the winter months. So a simple 6 ft pedestal mount rather than roof mount offers a number of advantages.

1. You can easily tilt the panels to a higher angle for winter and it provides easy and cheaper, installation and maintenance access, without climbing ladders and taking "roof risks".
2. Fewer, shorter wire runs are required to reach the combiner box which is then more accessible.
3. You can easily brush off a leaf or some light snow or frost with a broom, that's impractical or impossible to do on a roof. Also snow generally slides off if they are set to an optimum winter angle of 65 or 70 degrees. Even a single leaf on one panel in an array can reduce current flow by 20-30% or more in the whole array. Remember a PV panel is a series circuit, like a garden hose. Kink the hose and the flow is seriously reduced.
4. If you make a simple azimuth lock on the array you can easily point the array to take full advantage of afternoon sun when it's been cloudy all morning . . without having to invest $4000 in an active tracking mount. Proper "Top-of-Pole" mounts are Universal and accept most panels you choose, but I'd say that is the "PREFERRED INSTALL METHOD" in Canada and the extra performance is well worth it. It's a useful option that's easy to build into any northern installation.
Here's what I mean: You can do it on your way out the door.