Product Overview
The Rapid Deploy is a self-contained 1 kW solar power skid built to be moved and stood up fast — the array, battery, and electronics ride on a galvanized steel pallet with an aluminum frame and a 10-foot mast, and the unit ships with no crating and deploys in about 15 minutes. It is the answer for emergency, temporary, and rapidly-relocated sites where a fixed install is impractical: stand it up, energize the load, and move it to the next site when the job is done. Choose Rapid Deploy when the site is temporary or has to move; for a larger permanently-sited power plant, see the Power Station.
Other SunWize systems
Power Station — larger skid-mounted fixed installs, forklift / crane-set
Power Ready — custom-engineered pole / ground systems sized to your load
PRE Power Ready Express — pre-engineered stocked configs — ship in days
PVK Solar Kits — 40 / 50 / 60 W panel + PWM controller kits, unit-priced
Hybrid — solar + generator + EFOY fuel cell for low-sun / high-load sites
Key Features & Benefits
- Sized as one system, not a box of parts — array, charge controller, battery, and enclosure are engineered together against the site and the load, so the pieces are matched — the controller suits the array, the battery suits the autonomy, the wire suits the voltage. You get a power system, not a parts list to reconcile yourself.
- Engineered to the worst month, so it carries year-round — the design is run against the worst-case winter sun rather than the annual average, which is what keeps the load alive through the dark months. The failure you are buying your way out of is dead equipment in mid-winter.
- Built for long, low-attention service — the battery is the wear item; modules age slowly over decades, and cellular telemetry can report the system’s own state of charge so a remote site is checked on a schedule, not a guess. Designed to be left alone on a site nobody wants to drive to.
- Bought through one vendor of record — Prater Technical handles specification review, quoting, order processing, and status all the way through to delivery, so the system sets up cleanly on arrival. One point of contact from sizing to the loading dock.
Specifications
- System type
- Relocatable 1 kW solar power skid — array, battery, and electronics on a galvanized steel pallet with an aluminum frame; ships uncrated and stands up in the field.
- Power / load class
- Up to 1 kW of solar power.
- PV array
- PV array up to 1 kW, mounted on the skid’s frame and a 10-foot mast with a customizable pole interface.
- Battery & autonomy
- Deep-cycle battery bank on the skid — battery configuration is customizable to the load and the autonomy needed.
- Enclosure
- Integrated enclosure for the battery and electronics on the skid.
- Mounting
- Galvanized steel pallet with a sturdy aluminum frame and a 10-foot mast; ships with no crates or added packing material. Footprint about 83″ × 48″ × 87″, roughly 785 lb.
- Environment
- Built for outdoor field service and repeated relocation.
- Pricing
- Quote-only — the complete unit is configured and priced per application.
- Fulfillment & lead time
- Deploys in about 15 minutes on site; ships uncrated and fulfilled by factory drop-ship. Built to be stood up fast and relocated when the job moves.
Common Applications
- Emergency and disaster-response power — stand up communications or monitoring fast where the grid is down
- Temporary construction, work-zone, and event sites that need power now and will move later
- Surveillance, border-security, and military communications at relocatable forward sites
- Rapidly-sited environmental and seismic monitoring where a permanent install is premature
- Pilot and proof-of-concept SCADA / RTU deployments before a fixed system is engineered
Fit guide: Rapid Deploy is the relocatable 1 kW skid for temporary and emergency sites. For a larger permanently-sited power plant, see the Power Station; for small fixed instrument loads, the PRE and Power Ready lines.
Design & Selection Considerations
- Buy it for speed and mobility, not maximum power — the Rapid Deploy is a 1 kW unit engineered to ship uncrated and stand up in minutes — its value is getting power onto a site fast and moving it later, not carrying the largest possible load. For a large permanent load, the Power Station is the right tool; Rapid Deploy is for when the site itself is temporary.
- Plan for the relocation, not just the deployment — the galvanized pallet, aluminum frame, and 10-foot mast are built to be picked up and moved — so think through transport, the next pole interface, and re-leveling, the same way you planned the first set-up. A relocatable asset is only as good as the plan to relocate it.
- Confirm the 1 kW envelope covers the deployed load and its autonomy — fast deployment does not change the physics — the 1 kW array and the battery still have to carry the load through the site’s worst available sun for the days you need. Use the input form to send the load and the worst expected location so the envelope is real, not nominal.
- Pick the system voltage from the load and the wire run — a higher DC voltage carries the same power at lower current — smaller conductors, less voltage drop over distance — so longer cable runs and larger loads favor 24 V or 48 V, while a small instrument load is simplest at 12 V. Many SCADA, telemetry, and cathodic-protection loads come native in 12 or 24 V, and the system is often set to match. Use the input form to tell us the load voltage and where it sits relative to the array and battery.
- AGM vs LFP is a total-cost decision, not a price decision — sealed AGM is the proven value tier; lithium iron phosphate (LFP) costs more up front but earns it back where the battery cycles hard, the site gets cold, or a service visit is expensive — more cycles, better cold-weather behavior, longer life. On an arctic or hard-to-reach site that cycles daily, LFP often wins on total cost despite the sticker.
- PWM where the voltages match; MPPT where the harvest pays — a PWM controller is simple and economical when the array voltage is close to the battery voltage; an MPPT controller actively extracts the most available power, which pays off on larger systems, in cold weather (panel voltage rises), and where there is a voltage gap between array and battery. Small and voltage-matched calls for PWM; bigger or colder calls for MPPT.
To scope the right SunWize Rapid Deploy system:
To scope a SunWize system we work from the load and the site. The two most useful numbers are the equipment’s daily energy in watt-hours per day and its duty cycle (continuous, or dawn-to-dusk, or intermittent). With those plus the site location (which sets the worst-month sun), the autonomy you need (how many no-sun days the battery must carry), the system voltage if the equipment dictates one, and the environment / area classification and mounting available, Prater sizes the array, battery, controller, and enclosure and returns a quote. Use the input form to send the load profile and we will tell you which SunWize system fits.
Remote Solar Power Application Sheet ›Talk to an engineer directly — Scott Prater, Principal · 917-580-0878 · scott@pratertechnical.com
Specifications compiled by Prater Technical Partners from SunWize Technologies published product literature.