Activating Renusol components

Renusol is specialised in the manufacture and sales of solar mounting systems for all types of roof and was founded in 1997. From its headquarters in Cologne, the company manages its businesses in all core markets in Europe, the Middle East and Africa.
With more than 25 years of experience and the delivery of mounting systems for more than 3 Gigawatts to more than 48 countries, Renusol is one of the key players in the PV industry.

Racking integration

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The Renusol racking integration is live in the UK, Germany, Netherlands, Belgium and Poland. 

To get started with using the new Renusol Configurator, complete your design as usual within OpenSolar, paying careful attention to the nature of the mounting settings and it is important to make a written note of what the indicated roof pitch/slope is, as you will need this later. [Example image below]

Once done with the above steps, click on the tab below that selected to add panels, and this takes you to the mounting system setup area of the design [as seen below]:

Once you've established all of your appropriate roof characteristics to support your mounting configuration, click on the 'Renusol Configurator' button as seen above.

Once done, a new Configurator button shall appear just below the initial activation button. Press this new button to enter the Renusol Configurator [as seen below]:

When you click on the second Renusol Configurator button [as seen above] in the Mounting tab, it will launch the Renusol Configurator tool as a popup. You may be required to create an account and/or login, but once done, the Configurator will send across a few key details about the design, including how many panel groups, location information, panel information and some basic guesses at the roof dimensions.

However, you will need to complete some more information that is key to the racking calculations in the Renusol tool and also review the roof dimensions size as it may not give the correct result depending on which product and roof type is selected in this process.

Also we currently assume the panel thickness of 35mm and weight of 20kg for the panels which can be updated in the Renusol configurator if need be. 

You should also ensure that each panel group’s design is accurate to what is designed in OpenSolar, since OpenSolar does not send the panel group design to Renusol. 

Watch this Video (possibly at increased playback speeds) to receive a quick demonstration of the tool in action and gain some additional guidance of what things will be like once you're successfully within the Renusol Configurator:

Rensusol Configurator Demo Video

An overview of the Renusol configurator workflow is as follows: 

1. Configuration
2. Design
• Validate design
3. Part list
4. Repeat for any other panel groups if necessary. 

After you have gone through the Renusol workflow for all of your panel groups, you can click the “Back to OpenSolar” button which will take you back to the app and show you a full list of the components that Renusol recommends.

If a panel group is not completed, then we will give a warning in the partlist screen after you come back to OpenSolar and you can then go through the Renusol flow again to update that panel group. 

Note that every time you click on the Renusol configurator after the first time it will return you to the same project in Renusol, so if you make any changes to the system design, you must click the Clear Renusol text beneath Renusol Configurator button in order to start a new Renusol project.