Bentek has expanded its overmolded cable harness solutions for PV projects using both thin film First Solar Series 4 and Series 6 PV panels and PV projects using Crystalline PV panels. “Bentek’s FastLink expanded overmolded solutions allow project designers to optimize their cable harness designs saving up to 30% in both material and labor costs […]
Bentek announces orders for its 1500VDC line of 2 Circuit Parallel Cable Harness have now exceeded 10M feet. Bentek has over 30 years of design and manufacturing experience in a broad range of both AC and DC OEM power distribution products for the residential, commercial and utility-scale solar PV marketplaces. “We have seen great success […]
SAN JOSE, CA ― December 2015 Bentek Solar, manufacturer of a broad range of products connecting PV panels to inverters worldwide for the residential, commercial and utility-scale marketplaces, has received patents for the Bentek inverter PowerRack and PowerSkid – patent numbers D739,819 S and D739,346 S. “Bentek Solar continues to add to its patent portfolio […]
SAN JOSE, CA ― July 2015 – Bentek, a leader in manufacturing a broad range of solar OEM power distribution products for the residential, commercial and utility-scale marketplaces, has increased its manufacturing capacity by adding a second shift at its new San Jose, California manufacturing facility. The second shift has been added in response to […]
SAN JOSE, CA ― June 2015 – Bentek, the leader in manufacturing a broad range of solar OEM power distribution products for the residential, commercial and utility-scale marketplaces, has increased its cable harness capacity at its new San Jose California manufacturing facility to meet growing customer demand. Bentek has shipped more than 35,000 string combiners […]
SAN JOSE, CA ― June 2015 ― Bentek, a manufacturer of OEM power distribution products for the residential, commercial and utility-scale solar PV markets, continues to see Bentek PowerRacks gaining customer acceptance on U.S. solar projects. The PowerRack has recently been chosen by Vista Solar, a leading Bay Area PV integrator, for a few rooftop […]
SAN JOSE, CA ― May 2015 ― Bentek Solar, a manufacturer of a broad range of products connecting PV panels to inverters worldwide for the residential, commercial and utility-scale marketplaces, announces that it has further expanded the Bentek AC product line. The newly designed AC Recombiner has been engineered in partnership with Advanced Energy Industries to […]
SAN JOSE, CA ― May 2015 ― Bentek, a manufacturer of a broad range of OEM power distribution products for the residential, commercial and utility-scale solar PV marketplaces, has succesfully integrated the Bentek proprietary Power Economizer into the Bentek Residential Rapid Shutdown System (RSS) . “The Power Economizer is a Bentek proprietary designed printed circuit […]
View Bentek’s Rapid Shutdown System (RSS) application note providing an update on how PV systems can be designed to meet NEC 2014 article 690.12 using RSS.
NEC 2014 section 690.12 requires that inverters must be installed within 10 ft of the solar array to meet rapid shutdown requirements. Inverters must also be elevated to meet new fire safety codes. The easiest way to achieve this is to mount inverters on racking, but since manufacturing these isn’t in the realm of most […]
