Custom Solar Solutions

Transportation

We don’t just offer solar products for the transportation industry. We design, engineer, and manufacture total solar solutions.

Internet of Things

Devices used in IoT are often extremely low power, light energy outdoors and indoors can be used to extend or replace traditional batteries, making long-term maintenance-free solutions possible. 

Government & DoD

Since PowerFilm’s beginning over 30 years ago the US Department of Defense has been our largest lifetime customer. We offer man-portable, vehicle, and basing solutions

Marine

Whatever kind of boat you have, our solar solutions ensure your boat or lift batteries are ready to go when you are.

Golf

By installing a solar panel on the existing roof of a golf car, you can drive up to 50% farther and keep the batteries in your golf car up to 50% longer. 

PowerFilm’s proprietary manufacturing provides custom amorphous silicon panels that work in any light environment, including the indoor, industrial lighting of many IoT sensor applications.

Celebrating over thirty years in business, PowerFilm is proud to be one of the few US-based solar manufacturing companies operating today.

The Soltronix brand brings PowerFilm expertise, innovation, and commitment to US-based semi-flexible crystalline silicon solutions. Soltronix brings you complete solutions to fit your application, including panels, encapsulation, semi-flexible substrates, proprietary PowerBoost charge controllers, and the collaboration and customer service you expect from a US-based company.

How We Helped GEM Design a Custom Solar Solution for their Low-Speed Electric Vehicles

The Low-Speed Vehicles (LSVs) market continues to grow as individuals, families, college campuses, theme parks, and resorts opt for more efficient and environmentally conscious ways to get around. Increasingly these vehicles are even becoming the primary means of transportation.

To get the most value from an LSV, you need flexible means to charge and maintain your batteries.That’s where solar can make a difference.

Reefer Solar Panels Help Save More Diesel Than You Might Think

Refrigerated or frozen goods are kept at the proper temperature using transportation refrigeration units (TRUs) which allow for bulk transport but have a measurable effect on the amount of diesel a vehicle consumes. 

You might think you'd need a sizable solar panel to affect diesel consumption, but a small, cost-effective solar panel has a significant impact.

Solar Panels for Thermo King Precedent and Carrier Vector Reefers

Today’s post dives into three key benefits solar panels provide to trailer refrigeration units (often referred to as reefers).

Solar panel benefits include: 

1. Enabling trailer telematics
2. Improving system reliability
3. Reducing jump-start service calls

Choosing the Right Solar Charge Controller: How to Optimize Your System and Increase Efficiency

A complete solar solution includes a panel, a storage device, a battery, and a charge controller to manage the power generated by the panel and stored in the battery. 

At its most basic level, a charge controller maintains your battery’s health and ensures you aren't damaging it. Charge controllers work in several ways to regulate the voltage sent to the battery, and you can throw away enormous amounts of energy if paired with an inappropriate or inefficient controller.

How To Solar Power Your Golf Car The Easy Way

Golf cars are a fixture of golf courses allowing players to finish more quickly and course owners to turn over more daily rounds. Increasingly golf cars are also an effective and popular way to get around communities where golf cars and other low-speed electric vehicles (LSEVs) are often the primary means of transportation.

While battery-powered golf cars have many advantages over gas-powered vehicles, they must be charged. To get the most value from a battery-powered golf car, you need a portable means of charging and maintaining those batteries. 

That’s where solar can make a difference.