Projects

Application: Rural Electrification
Location: Nepal
Product: SunSaver 10, 20

SunSaver controllers were used at camp during a record breaking climb to Mt. Annapurna in Nepal.

Solar application utilizing a Morningstar SunSaver-6 to illuminate art sculptures.  Photo courtesy of Mark Fiore.

Solar street lighting in South Africa utilizing the Morningstar SunSaver MPPT.  Photo courtesy of Solar Gateway Africa (Pty) Ltd.

Application: Transportation and Traffic
Location: Croatia
Product: SunSaver 10

Morningstar’s SunSaver 10 professional series solar charge controller is rated for Hazardous Locations – Class 1, Division 2 Groups A-D, making it perfect for this signal lighting application in Croatia.

Western Australia, Minim Cove, Fremantle, Town of Peppermint Grove.  Safety lighting for boats on the Swan River on Minim Cover jetty.  Solar powered area lighting 22w from dusk to dawn utilizing a Morningstar SunLight 12V 10 amp controller.  Photo courtesy of Solar Sales, Australia.

Application: Rural Electrification
Product: ProStar 15
Partners include: We Care Solar

Morningstar’s ProStar 15 solar controller is a component of the award-winning We Care Solar Suitcase, a portable power unit that provides health workers in remote locations with highly-efficient medical lighting and power for mobile communication, computers and medical devices.

–Photo courtesy of Dr. Laura Stachel, We Care Solar

Inverter: SureSine

The attached photo is of a Tucker “Sno-Cat” panel which was modified to support computers and communications.  This vehicle recently completed the GRIT (Greenland Inland Traverse), covering over 1,400 miles on the Greenland ice cap. There is 170 watts of PV mounted to the roof of the Tucker which runs through a Morningstar charge controller to the vehicles heavy duty batteries.  Many of the loads were run off of straight DC to prevent any conversion losses.  The Morningstar off-grid inverter took care of the small AC loads (computers, etc.).  Since this vehicle towed the living module for the crew, more batteries were mounted along with the Morningstar inverter in the coach, so they could also have AC/DC power. Those batteries were in parallel to the vehicle batteries so all shared the loads and charging inputs.  This system bounced across the ice cap for a couple of months, getting cold soaked every night and heated up every day.  Never a problem developed, and the crew loved the system.  Photo Courtesy of Polar Field Services

Warning beacon utilizing SunLight-10 in fish farming application.  Photo courtesy of Wireless Energy Chile.

Application: Small solar
Location: United States
Product: SunKeeper

Morningstar’s SunKeeper solar controller provides a low-cost, regulated output directly from the solar module to maximize battery life in small solar power applications. Here is the SunKeeper pictured in a solar suitcase, a portable power unit.