On Oct. 23, just miles from the center of Hurricane Patricia, the most powerful tropical cyclone ever measured in the Western Hemisphere, with maximum sustained winds reaching an unprecedented 200 mph, an Everest fully ballasted S Dome system installed in Manzanillo, Mexico, secured the Solar PV array in place without problem. The system (5.5 kW made up of 22 250-W solar panels) didn’t suffer any damages and continued working as designed without having to be adjusted after the storm.
The impressed project developer Francisco Javier Barba Robert from Mayoreo Iluminacion says that our system was the only fully ballasted system, that didn’t have any attachments to the roof nor had to be taken down before in order to save it from damages.
“Thankfully we don’t experience Category 5 hurricanes often, but is a great feeling to know that the effort our team has put into engineering and thoroughly testing our mounting systems provide real benefits to our partners, integrators and their customers”, commented Andy Neshat, CEO of Everest Solar Systems.
Yusef Kanchi, DMSolar, explained: “With products like this and a high quality organization backing it, it is no surprise that the DMSolar – Everest partnership has resulted in the highest selling and most trusted mounting solution on residential systems in our country.”
The S Dome is a leading solar racking product for flat roofs. The fully ballasted solution is part of the Everest Solar Systems catalog of products for flat and pitched roofs, all of which are tested to industry standards.
Please visit the link to a video of the install of the Everest S Dome with all its components, which were provided by our distributor DMSolar in Guadalajara (Sales and video producer: Luis Jose de los Santos).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rCkMoIXSO-A&feature=youtu.be
