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JJM FARMS SOLAR ENERGY SYSTEM INSTALLATION

On this page, we will be following the New Mexico Solar and Wind installation crew as they install a 100 kW system at JJM Farms in Dexter, NM.  This unique installation will provide all the power required to operate a deep artesian irrigation well and center pivot sprinkler.

JJM Farms - Menefee Farm Artesian Well

JJM Farms - Menefee Farm Center Pivot Sprinkler


JJM Farms - Menefee Farm Solar Energy System Site from South

JJM Farms - Menefee Farm Solar Energy Site from North



INSTALLATION DESIGN


 

INSTALLING ARRAY POSTS
 
   

GPS

  

GPS Post Placement

  

Array Post Locations Staked and Flagged

 
 

Post Driving Machine

  

Raising Post into Position

  

Lowering Hydraulic Hammer to Post

 
 

Aligning Post Vertically

  

Driving Post 63" into ground

  

Installed Post


 

Array Posts Installed

  

Array Posts Installed

Solar Power is coming to the Pecos Valley

 


Laying out Racking Materials

  

Materials Ready for Mounting

 

INSTALLING ARRAY RACKING
 

 

Posts and Binders Installed

    

Posts and Binders Installed

 

First Array Racking Installed

 

View of Array Racking from South

 

Installing Racking Rails

  

Completed Sub-Array Racking

 

Completed Sub-Array Racking

  

Completed Sub-Array Racking

 

Completed Sub-Array Racking

  

Completed Sub-Array Racking

 

Completed Sub-Array Racking

  

Completed Sub-Array Racking

 

INSTALLING SOLAR MODULES
 

 

Unloading modules for first array

  

First array of modules installed

 

Installing modules on Arrays 2 and 3

 

Check out our new "Parking Garage"

 

Unpacking more modules

  

Rain clouds threatening to stop work

 

Rain less than a mile away; maybe we should quit for the day.....

The rain finally came......but at least the arrays got a wash job!

 

Installing the last modules on the last subarray

  

Waiting for the cement truck to come

 

Inverter slab poured.

  

The center pivot sprinkler passes by the Solar Array that will power it.

Wide angle shot looking down 9 rows of Subarrays totaling 550 Solar PV Modules

 

Looking down the Alley

  

15 Subarrays - 550 modules

JJM Farms Solar Installation from NM Highway 2

 

Installing string wiring on Array

  

Array 1 and 2 string wiring completed

 

Module string wiring completed - back view

  

Module string wiring completed - front view

 

Conduit Trench - 500' North to South

  

Conduit Trench - South from Inverter Pad

 

Conduit Trench - North from Inverter Pad

  

DC conduit in trench to Inverter

 

Relocated Inverter pad

  

Inverter Pad with AC conduit

 

DC Wiring Conduits in trenches to Array 3

  

DC and AC Wiring Conduit in trenches

 

DC and AC Wiring Conduit in trench to combiner box

  

DC and AC Wiring Conduit in trench to Inverter

 

AC and DC Conduit in main Trench

  

Starting backfill on main trench

 

Combiner Box with Seal-tite strain reliefs

  

Interior of wired Combiner Box

 

Utility Service Point with AC Disconnect

  

Fused AC Disconnect Wired

 

Conduit to Production Meter

  

Production Meter Socket

 

Backfilling Trenches

  

Backfilling Trenches

 

Nextronex Inverter Installed

  

480V Transformer Installed

 

Making adjustments on Inverter

  

Inverter on line

 

Solar J-Box

  

Solar Combiner Box

 

Solar Recombiner Box feeding into Inverter

  

AC Service Disconnect Panel

 

Production Meter - 4:15 pm

  

Revenue Meter - 4:30 pm (exporting power)

 

Inverter Operating and online, making clean Solar power

  

Production and Revenue Meters

 

Completed Solar System with Fencing

  

Making Clean Solar Power

ANOTHER INFINERGY SOLAR SYSTEM INSTALLATION MAKING CLEAN, EFFICIENT, AFFORDABLE SOLAR POWER.

STAY TUNED FOR MORE SYSTEMS PHOTOS TO COME.......

 

THANKS

Thanks and appreciation is given to Murray Hambrick, Kimberly Davis and all the staff of Infinergy Wind and Solar for their support and help, especially to Ralph Chambati for his patience and instruction, to Wrangler Electric, Mike Brinkman and crew for a job well done, to Xcel Energy, Steve Gonzales, Robert Perea and Jackie Webb for their help and cooperation, to our major suppliers Aide Solar, Nextronex Energy Systems, Schletter Solar Mounting Systems and Roswell Winlectric, and to John Berry and JJM Farms for their patience and help.

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