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Project:   Planetary Systems Home & Business
Personal PV/Wind power system
Our home is powered by three pole mounted PV arrays with (2) 6 module racks of older Astropwer 120 watt modules and one newer array with (6) Carmannah CTI-90 watt modules on a seperate controller. Additionally there is a Whisper H-80 and Whisper H-40 wind generator connected to this system. The arrays are wired as a 72vdc array (6 panels in series) which reduces wire loss thanks to the Outback Power MX-60 controllers.

Udated Power Package system
Our home power system was updated to the new PP-Ultra system (model PP-2524T/5K) featuring Outback Power Systems 2500 watt inverters, MX-60 controllers connected to our original AGM-1000 a/h battery bank. This system can now integrate all DC wind and PV inputs, at different voltages, allowing greater efficiency from the system.

Shop PV and Wind power
Our shop system has (12) Sunwize SW-120 modules mounted on our shop roof now wired as a 72vdc array, increasing our power collection by about 30% We also have 72vdc set of (3) Mitsubishi 175 watt modules as a sunshade for the office area. The shop system has our FDCS-075A VAWT wind turbine on the far and, our C-500W Vawt in the center and our new H-type VAWT in the foreground. These wind units are available exclusively from Planetary Systems.

The shop power system includes our new PP-Ultra system featuring OUTBACK power products including a pair of VFX-3524 inverters and a pair of MX-60 controllers plus the Outback Mate-2 and Hub-4 control systems. Battery storage is a 1500 a/h AGM bank which has been in service since 2002 as shown, powering our shop tools lights and the main heating system.

We utilize wood heat to augment our heating bills for LP gas using the Tarm wood boiler shown at the far left. This is the smaller 100,000 btu unit which works well for us combined with our new Buderus GB-142 condensing gas boiler added this year (98% Eff.) which is connected in series with our wood boiler. This system provides heat to our shop, home and out-buildings. We project the new boiler will save us about 50% on LP gas cost based on current operation.

Our home hot water system includes a Seido 1-8 collector with a Buderus S-120 tank and PV powered Ivan Labs pump which is self regulating and keeps about 120 deg-F water in the tank year round. We have a Takagi instantaneous LP heater to bring the water to full temp when necessary. Estimated LP use is about 10-15 gallons annually with this system.

Planetary Systems offers our own unique and inexpensive tower design for the Whisper wind generator models which is simple, easy to set up and our test model shown has survived well over 60mph gusts and all the wind our site can dish out. Two versions are available. The top of pad mount as shown and another version which is set into concrete where a 4' deep hole can be dug. Our site only allows top of pad mouting. No guy wires needed and in 16' and 30' heights.

Planetary Systems Inc. - PO Box 340 - 262 Badger Rd - Ennis, MT 59729 - Phone/Fax: (406) 682-5646