HELIOSPANSolar mounting / demo

DEMO — fictional range. Local brief only, NOT SENT. No personal data is collected or transmitted.

COMPONENT / FICTIONAL EXAMPLE

Mounting rail

An extruded aluminium rail with a slot along the top. The section is the specification: it decides the span between supports and the load the array can take.

Original 3D render of a mounting rail.
Original 3D render · fictional appearance concept

How it is made.

Extruded to a section, cut to length and drilled for the fixings. The section modulus is what sets the maximum span, and the span is what the whole array design is built from.

Illustrative specification

Section
Example · 40 × 45 mm
Length
Example · 1600 mm
Slot
Example · 28 mm channel
Material
Example · 6063-T6
Max span
Example · 1200 mm
Finish
Example · mill finish

Every value above is an illustrative example for a fictional range. It is not a quotation, a structural calculation or a measurement of any real component.

What a component datasheet cannot tell you.

Whether the array holds at your site. A rail has a span and a clamp has a torque, but the load on them comes from the wind and snow at a particular place, and that is a calculation rather than a catalogue number.

What it cannot show either.

Whether the installation was done to the specification. Most mounting failures are fixings that were never tightened to the declared torque.