SolarSet builds complete solar power systems at its factory in Center, Colorado, then ships them ready to use. Each one arrives as a single finished unit. Panels, inverter, charge control, wiring and, where the configuration calls for it, battery storage all come mounted on a steel frame and tested under load. Nothing shows up in pieces. There is no parts list to check and no assembly crew to book. Buyers choose between three configurations: off-grid, hybrid and grid-tie. The build standard behind all three is the same. What changes is how the system works with the utility grid.
The three differ in one way: whether the system ties into the utility grid, and whether it stores power on site.
An off-grid solar system has no tie to the utility grid. Solar panels charge a battery bank. An inverter turns that stored power into standard 120 or 240 volt current. The system runs the property on its own, day and night. Off-grid is the choice for sites the grid does not reach, or where running a new line makes no sense.
A hybrid solar system ties into the utility grid and carries its own battery storage. Solar runs the property first, extra power charges the batteries, and what is left goes out to the grid. Because the storage sits on site, a hybrid keeps the property running through an outage. That is the main difference from grid-tie. Look at hybrid when grid service is there but cannot be counted on.
A grid-tie solar system ties into the utility grid and has no batteries. The panels feed the property while the sun is up, and the grid covers the rest. That makes it the simplest of the three to install. Grid-tie systems switch off during an outage, a safety rule that protects the crews fixing the lines.
Start with one question. Is there usable utility service at the site?
If the answer is no, and running a line is slow, costly or not possible, the choice is made. Off-grid is the only configuration that runs a property with nothing behind it.
If service is there and you can rely on it, a grid solar system with no storage is the straightforward choice. Grid-tie has the fewest parts and the least to go wrong. It fits sites where a rare outage is a nuisance, not a problem.
If service is there but outages are long, frequent or costly, hybrid sits in the middle. It acts like grid-tie on a normal day and like a backup system the moment the grid drops. Ranchers watering stock, crews running monitors, and anyone whose work cannot just stop tend to land here.
Every unit is built as one assembly before it leaves the floor. Parts are matched to each other during design, not picked from a catalog and hoped to fit. The frame, the wiring layout and the enclosure go together as a set, and the finished system is powered up and checked at the factory. By the time it reaches a site, we know how it runs. That matters most where a failure is costly to reach: a telecom repeater at the end of a service road, a pump on the far side of a section, a site four hours from the nearest electrician.
Most of what sells online as a finished system is really a box of parts. Solar panel kits and power kit bundles put the right pieces in one order: panels, an inverter, batteries, a charge controller, cables and mounting hardware. Then they leave the build to whoever opens the boxes. That is real work. Racking has to go up and be squared, panels lifted and bolted down, wire run and landed, and the whole thing tested before it makes any power at all.
A SolarSet system shows up with that work done. The panels are on the frame. The wire is run and landed. The enclosure is filled and labeled. Delivery and a working system are the same event. That is the real difference between buying a complete solar power system and buying the parts for one.
One build standard covers a wide range of sites. SolarSet systems run small houses and cabins, larger homes, campers and RVs, construction sites large and small, telecommunications equipment, agricultural operations, and well pumps.
Those sites share little except what they demand. Equipment sits outdoors year round, often alone, sometimes a long way from a road. Heavy duty loads start and stop with no warning. Service calls cost real money. A system built and proven indoors before it ever reached that setting takes most of the guesswork out of remote power.
Delivery is free and curbside within 300 road miles of the factory. Past that, systems ship anywhere in North America.
Curbside means the truck needs a usable driveway or lot tied to a well kept public road. The buyer or a representative has to be on site to take delivery. If the drop point is public property, you need written permission from the authority having jurisdiction before the truck rolls in.
Setting the unit in place and anchoring it are separate services. They are offered in select areas only and priced case by case. Buyers outside those areas line up placement and anchoring with their own contractor. Ask before you order and we will tell you plainly which applies at your address.
The finished assembly. Panels on the frame, inverter and controls in the enclosure, all inside wiring run and landed, and battery storage where the configuration includes it. The system is powered up and tested before it ships.
A kit is a box of matched parts. Everything is in the order, but the build, the wiring and the testing all happen at your end. A SolarSet unit shows up built, wired and proven, so the site work is placement and connection, not construction.
Size follows load. List what has to run, how much each item draws, and how long it has to run without sun. Our sizing walkthrough covers that math, or send us the list and we will work it out with you.
Usually, though the ceiling depends on the configuration and the equipment inside it. Tell us where you expect demand to go and we can build in that headroom from the start.
Send the location, the loads you need to power your home or facility, and whether utility service reaches the property. We will tell you which configuration fits, what it takes to deliver, and just what happens when the truck arrives. Contact our team to get started.
Small House/Cabin
Large Homes
Small Campers
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RV’s
Small Construction Sites
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Telecommunications
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