Charlie Sparks installs solar in Fiddletown NSW 2159, a rural pocket of Hornsby Shire reached by Cobah Road and Bloodwood Road and bordered by national park. With only a couple of hundred residents, it is made up of orchards, farms and private rural homes.
Power use on properties like these is rarely even through the year. Irrigation, cool storage and packing can push demand up for months, then ease off. We look at a full twelve months of data so the system suits your busiest season.
Irrigation and cooling peak in the warmer months, which is also when solar generates the most. That overlap means your system does its best work when your electricity use, and your bill, would otherwise be highest.
The STC scheme reduces the upfront cost of eligible solar, with a larger discount for larger systems. We factor it into your quote and take care of the claim, and we will confirm whether a battery incentive applies.
With a backup-capable battery, a grid outage does not have to mean no water or no refrigeration. The circuits you nominate keep running on stored energy, giving you time until mains supply is restored to the property.
Running pumps and cool rooms on solar lowers the emissions behind what you grow and store. For producers, that is a practical step towards cleaner operations that also happens to reduce costs on the property year after year.
A rural installation needs careful planning, so we take the time to get the details right before any work starts.
Rural lines can restrict system size and exports, and long cable runs must be sized correctly. We check the limits on your connection and design within them, so you are not sold a system the network will not approve.
Clean Energy Council accreditation is mandatory for the STC rebate. Every Charlie Sparks installer has it, and every system is installed to AS/NZS 5033 and AS/NZS 4777 with compliance documents supplied to you.
We lodge the connection application with the network and manage the STC claim. If Hornsby Shire Council has any requirement for your site, we will flag it at the start, well before you commit to anything.
Licensed NSW electricians and CEC accredited installers complete all of our work. We carry current public liability and workers compensation insurance on every rural job we take on.
We fit Tier 1 panels with inverters from Fronius, Sungrow, SolarEdge and GoodWe. Their track record and Australian warranty support make them a sound choice for a working property.
Trenching, long cable runs, shed mounting and switchboard changes are all scoped at the site visit. They appear in your quote as line items, and the total does not move afterwards.
Mounting is secure, cables run in conduit, roof fixings are sealed and inverters are placed out of the weather. We tidy up, remove all rubbish and leave gates as we found them.
Fiddletown is part of the rural area we service across The Hills District. Our installers also work in neighbouring Arcadia, Glenorie, Galston and Berrilee, as well as the other suburbs in the list below.
Plan for one to two days. A simple house installation can be finished in a day. Arrays on sheds, trenched cable runs and batteries add time. We set the dates with you in advance so the work fits around what is happening on the property.
We use twelve months of bills or interval data, not a single quarter. That shows your peak season and your quiet months, so we can size the array to cover high-demand periods without badly oversizing it for the rest of the year. A battery can help balance the difference.
Yes. Both run mainly during the day and in warmer months, which matches solar output well. We check the size and starting load of the equipment, your supply capacity and the best location for panels, then design a system that covers as much of that demand as possible.
It depends on your supply and the local network. Some rural connections have limits on inverter size or on how much can be exported. We confirm what applies before we finalise the design, and where exports are limited we focus on using the solar on site.
Yes. All installers are Clean Energy Council accredited, and we deduct and claim the STC rebate for you. Panels include a 25-year performance warranty and 10 to 15 years on the product, inverters carry 5 to 10 years, and our own workmanship warranty covers the installation.
