Solar Stand Alone Short Course (Swinburne University of Technology)
Images from Glen Morris’s stand alone power systems course at Moora Moora Community Coop (Healesville, Victoria). This is the practical component (3 days) of the nine day course. Students are required to complete a range of tasks including: checking flooded and VRLA batteries, downloading performance history from inverters and charge controllers, and installing PV modules, inverters, batteries, isolators and d.c. cabling.
Fitting SP Pro inverter to renovated house.
Installing the battery voltage sensing cables. The SP Pro inverter uses three sense wires so that it can monitor the actual battery voltage when high currents are flowing in the battery leads and to measure the voltage of each half of the battery bank so that it can check for a weak cell in the bank.
Heat shrinking the battery cables
Installing the AERL charge controller
View from Mount Toolebewong (Moora Moora Coop)
Drawing stand alone system wiring diagrams
Buddhist prayer flags
Home garden
Microhydro supply line
Assessing an old stand alone power system (SPS)
Old SPS system (24V array)
Cleaning the tops of batteries
Checking some flooded batteries with hydrometer
Eight year old battery enclosure – still going strong
Ground mount system
Downloading the history from inverter
Analysing the data
Retrieving charge controller history manually
Checking for hot cells or hot spots on existing array
Tea time in the kitchen
Susanna, our chef, preparing lunch
Another delicious lunch
30 year old PV modules on “test” shed
Wombat Hollow Cluster
1.75kW PV system on shed attached to house
Microhydro “Streamengine” 2kW turgo turbine
Microhydro inverter and controller
Selectronic SP Pro 241 being programmed on site
Class visit to Selectronic’s factory in Chirnside Park
Ivan Carter of Selectronic giving the students some tips on setting up an a.c. coupled system
Selectronic’s most common installer fault – not sufficiently tightening the main battery cables
Can you please provide the prices for the stand alone system course. 9 days
Hi Simon, please contact Vishal Khanna from Swinburne for details of the course pricing (03 9210 1226)
The CEC have told me that I require to complete the course UEENEEK127A – Diagnose and rectify faults in renewable energy control systems – which is not available, at the moment, here in Adelaide. does your proposed course cover this subject? So that I can achieve full accreditation for SPS. I have already completed the Selectronics SP PRO Accredited integrator training program for off grid and solar hybrid systems.
Regards
Brian Hunter
Hi Brian, good news, the CEC have just dropped the requirement for K127A for SPS accreditation. They should have updated their “Training Units with Mapping” document by CoB today.
Glen
I would like some information on training course for on grid battery systems
Hi Shannon,
I’m running a series of on-grid battery storage (hybrid) courses for the Australian Solar Council. You can find out more and enrol at this address http://solar.org.au/events/