The Martians have landed again... with their stuff

4-3-2008 (Day Positive 1)

Finally, the date we've all been waiting for... The colonization of the T-12 rooftop begins today! This is the day when the equipment would be sent over from our Conergy office (along Cecil Street) to Singapore Polytechnic (along Dover Road).

It was a major logistics movement. A grand total of six people (Jos, Boon, Lin, Benjamin, Linda and Terence) were mobilized on that nice Thursday morning. In total, more than 700 kg of equipment, tools and people would be transported! List of equipment:

PV modules

• Yingli 11oWp
• Jiawei 90Wp module
• Kaneka 92Wp module
• Conergy STM
  
• Mounting structures
  
• SunForte upgrade kit
  
• SolarFamulus
  

Charge controllers

• Apollo T-80 turbocharger
• Plasmatronics PL-20
  
• Morningstar TS-60 and TS-RM (with Fatspaniel Communicator and GPRS modem)
  

Batteries

• HBL NIFE TGI100 batteries
• FIAMM PMF 100 batteries

Miscellaneous components

• Conergy off-grid MIC inverters
  
• SunTechnics street light module
• Solar Home System demonstration kit

Everyone working hard (and Linda, not shown in pictures, was clicking furiously away on the camera):

The logistics certainly got everyone excited, even Boon was there to join in the fun. After recovering from his near-death experience with the bird-flu, he was still so eager to be involved. He was overheard saying, "I'm feeling okay, a little bird can't kill me.." Wow, words from a great man!

Arrival at the Singapore Polytechnic, finally:

Crew and equipment (well... most of the equipment) arrived without a scratch after some top-notch driving from the truck driver.

Even Jos agrees... He was overheard proclaiming: "Mujur saya tidak mati lah!" (whatever that means) :

Unloading process:


The completed battery room:


And the interior:

Unfortunately, there was no installation carried out on the first day. The day ended quite early since most of the team had to return to office in the afternoon. The massive logistics operations had inevitably taken its toll on the brave team.

The PV panels, mounting structures, batteries, wires and all other components were stored inside the battery room until the next installation date which would probably happen in the next week.

Until then, stay tuned for more updates to the Solar Lab!