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The Maxracker drive unit is powerful and compact. The unit is delivered to the field ready to plug in to power which can be 115, 208 or 230 single-phase as well as 208, 230 and 460 3-phase.

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Grid power is where volume output comes in to play. The Maxtracker single-axis (oriented North-South) tracking system uses a single high-capacity linear actuator to move multiple rows of flatplate photovoltaic (PV) panels for up to approximately 150 kiloWatts of electricity fed directly into the grid. There are 250 units in operation without any controller failures with 30 more units going online by the end of June 2006.

Entech Corporation in Keller, Texas developed this linear photovoltaic concentrator system. Each row is 25 kiloWatts. There are 72 modules in each row. One module is 12 feet long by 3 feet wide and rated at 430 Watts.
This high concentration (250x)photovoltaic system is built by Amonix Corporation in Torrence, California. It is 30 feet high by 40 feet wide, is rated at 25 kiloWatts and weighs in at 19000 pounds. It must be operated at a tracking precision of +/- 1/10 of a degree. It uses Fresnel lenses at about a two-foot focal length.