Why PVshelter?

With the space-saving PVshelter, you can keep disturbing noise from the inverters out. Any noise or mechanical vibrations are absorbed by the rubber roof supports and thus protect the roof structure.

  • Contributes to a fire-safe installation
  • Cost-saving through simplified cable infrastructure installation
  • Maximum ventilation possibilities
  • Prevents noise nuisance
  • Space-saving
  • Improves inspection possibilities
  • Easy to combine with RoofSupport cable tray
  • Modularly extendable
  • Roof shelter provides protection against direct sunlight and rain.

 

 

PVshelter offer a solution

PVshelter is a basic set of a bottom frame construction, mounting frame and is equipped with a roof. The bottom frame is standard placed on 45cm rubber roof supports and is equipped with 2 concrete tile ballast carriers in which up to 170KG of ballast can be placed. With the supplied cable tray and brackets, the installation of cabling is simplified and safe. To reduce point loads on the roof, the roof supports are available up to 1 metre.

 

Models

Back2Back

  • Type 200: freestanding PVshelter for mounting inverters ≤ 60KW up to 200 cm mounting width.
  • Type 300: freestanding PVshelter for mounting inverters ≤ 80KW up to 300 cm mounting width.
  • Type 300HE: freestanding PVshelter for mounting High-Energy inverters > 80KW up to 300 cm mounting width, equipped with additional brace profiles and easily (dis)mountable roof.

Wall-Floor

  • Type 100: wall-mounted PVshelter for mounting inverters ≤ 60KW up to 100 cm mounting width.
  • Type 150: wall-mounted PVshelter for mounting inverters ≤ 80KW up to 150 cm mounting width.
  • Type 150HE: wall-mounted PVshelter for mounting High-Energy inverters > 80KW up to 150 cm mounting width, equipped with an easily (dis)mountable roof.

Wall

  • Type 100: wall-mounted PVshelter for mounting inverters ≤ 60KW up to 100 cm mounting width.
  • Type 150: wall-mounted PVshelter for mounting inverters ≤ 80KW up to 150 cm mounting width.
  • Type 150HE: wall-mounted PVshelter for mounting High-Energy inverters > 80KW up to 150 cm mounting width, equipped with an easily (dis)mountable roof.

Angled

  • Type 130: freestanding PVshelter Angled for mounting inverters up to 130 cm mounting width.

Windcertificates for PVshelter

Conduct emphasizes quality product program with wind certification

With pride, Conduct announces that the PVshelter inverter mounting frames and RoofSupport cable management systems, developed based on TNO guidelines, are wind certified. The PVshelter models developed by Conduct proved to be more than capable of withstanding hurricane forces simulated in the Peutz wind tunnel.

Read more about the windcertificate

PVshelter platform

When installing a photovoltaic system on a roof, a structural engineer should calculate the roof load and check whether the maximum roof load is not exceeded after installing the photovoltaic system. If a low permissible roof load is found, an extended mounting frame structure must be calculated and used. By applying PVshelter Platform, where extremely low roof loads can be achieved based on an exact calculation, it is possible to install inverters on the roof.

 

Magnelis

All our PVshelters are equipped with Magnelis metal coating. This coating consists of zinc, alloyed with 3.5% aluminium and 3% magnesium. This unique composition ensures an excellent protection of the surface and the cut edges, even in the most extreme conditions. Under normal circumstances, this ensures that PVshelter is protected against corrosion for up to 25 years! One of the most remarkable features of Magnelis metal coating is that it is able to repair itself at the cut edges, which is usually where corrosion often occurs. When exposed to the environment, Magnelis® forms a very dense zinc-based protective film, unlike galvanised where the film is very porous. This unique dense film is also formed on edges, welds, perforations and scratches. In case some red rust was present on these uncoated zones, the red rust will be gradually covered by the Magnelis® film. It is almost impossible for the environment to penetrate this film. The result is that Magnelis® provides perfect protection of the whole structure, even on the uncoated edges, scratches and perforations.Magnelis coating

 

Of course, this coating has even more advantages:

  • Excellent workability in welding and forming due to smaller layer thickness;
  • Less harmful to the environment, because the coating contains less zinc, which can end up in the soil via rainwater;
  • The cost price is lower compared to other coatings applied after galvanisation;
  • Magnelis is also used by substructure manufacturers on which solar panels are mounted.

Would you like to know more about the Magnelis coating? View here the brochure, the datasheet and/or the certificate and explanation certificate.

 

 

 

In the video below, we tell you the ins and outs of the PVshelter: