Speciality hand tools for renewable energy contractors.

Most of the hand tools we promote are related to Solar Electric Industry and are used for cutting, stripping and crimping of solar cables (UV and thermo rated copper cables for solar industry for metric or imperial standard). Those cables are used for connection between panels or for home run connections from the solar panels down to the main DC disconnect box. Other frequent places with highly sensitive connections, thus requiring accuracy, are at string combiner boxes level.  All this type of connections has to be reliable and to reduce the chance of weather degradation. CleanEnergyBrands offers tools that are doing the job with no pinching or deformation of cable ends. In this way we eliminate additional resistance and voltage drops, tools capable of micro settings with 0.01 mm tolerance, containing dies as part of their kit which is used for different cable gauges (in the range of AWG 16/14/12/10/8). These tools have an exceptional handling and leverage. The very specific brands we promote in our shop are: Rennsteig USA and Tyco Electronics. All this tools are delivering results to match solar industry standards and comply to UL 1703, UL 1741, UL 4703, UL 854, and UL 467 where applicable.

In Solar Thermal application at the lower HTF (High Temperature Fluid) working temperatures the most common material used is PEX in different color codes, white for return and red or black for direct runs. Using special designed manifolds the PEX can be connected with the copper piping and in this way we obtain a neat and durable connection between solar panel on the roof and other components of the solar thermal hot water distribution system. Most of the time, this type of connection are located inside the attic or temperature conditioned areas. In general the first 10 feet’s from the solar thermal panel on the roof to the rest of installation are to be done in copper. There for we offer a variety of PEX crimping respective reaming and pipe cutter tools to accomplish any of the job’s specifics procedures.  

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Article: General guidelines and requirements for MC4 type of connector or a plug connector.
 

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