8 December 2014

Grand Opening on 8 December 2014

A significant date as Don Bosco started working for poor youth on 8 December 1841. 

Grand Opening: local authorities, media, EdC and MIME members, solar association members... were present

Father John Visser's speech

Michael Restivo's presentation on solar principle

Arjen Luxwolda's (Kamworks) presentation on solar benefits

H.E. Chhin Sarin's (Governor of Sihanoukville) speech

Official commissioning and grand opening

28 November 2014

Installation of the monitoring system

25 November 2014

AC installation - Finished line

19 November 2014

AC installation

18 November 2014

The installation of the AC part continues!

14 November 2014

Installation of the AC part

22 October 2014

Class Room Building - All panels are installed

Class Room Building - Thank you for your work!

Planning:

- 23 October: Public holiday

- 24 October: Inverters to installed on the Class Room Building

- 27 October: Reception of AC materials (drawings and installation manuals are available on this blog). Don Bosco's electricians will then start the installation of the AC part. Kamworks' staff will come at the end to help on the connections.

21 October 2014

Class Room Building - The mechanical team (5 students up + 2 students down + 1 teacher) is bringing the panels up

Class Room Building - The electrical team (5 students + 2 teachers) is installing the panels and doing the cabling (strings + extension to the inverters) 

Class Room Building - The electrical team

Class Room Building - 96 panels installed today (their record!)

Class Room Building - At the end of the working day (2/3 done)

Total installed on Class Room Building:INV1 - Strings 1 and 2INV2 - Strings 1 and 2INV3 - Strings 1 and 2

INV4 - Strings 1 and 2

INV5 - Strings 1 and 2

INV6 - Strings 1 and 2

INV7 - String 1

20 October 2014

Class Room Building - Install panels (1/3 done)

Class Room Building - Install panels

Total installed on Class Room Building:

INV1 - Strings 1 and 2

INV2 - String 1

INV3 - Strings 1 and 2

17 October 2014

One panel broke during manipulation - Be very careful! 

Class Room Building - Preparation of the hoist, wooden boards. First string installed on the roof

Total installed on Class Room Building:

INV1 - String 1

14 October 2014

 Secretarial Building - Install the last panel of the roof!

Secretarial Building - The electrical team after they installed all panels of the secretarial building roof

Secretarial Building - All panels are installed and connected in strings (ready to plug to the inverters)

Note:
- 15 October 2014: No work (National Holiday - Commemoration Day King Sihanouk)
- 16 October 2014: No work (Start of the technical school year - 1st year students)

13 October 2014

Secretarial Building - Install the panels

 Secretarial Building - Extend cables and add connectors

Secretarial Building - 60 panels installed today

Total installed on Secretarial Building:

INV10 - Strings 1 and 2

INV11 - Strings 1 and 2

INV12 - Strings 1 and 2

INV13 - Strings 1 and 2

INV14 - Strings 1 and 2

11 October 2014

 Secretarial Building - Install inverters on the wall

Secretarial Building - Optimization of the structures arrangement

Note: Class Room Building - The structures are installed. We can't start to install panels on that roof because the hoist is used for the Secretarial Building. We will start the installation of panels on the Class Room Building when the installation of the Secretarial Building is finished.