Second to, not only certifying the installation of the system before it's installed, we also certify the panels. Now that's where we test panels, we put it on an air bed jig similar to what they have at James Cook University, and we take them up to destruction. And we from there we derive our capacity and strength, we test quite a number of panels that way and that's how we certify the panel, then we certify the installation. We're also licensed structural engineers. So basically having tested the panel with the 40mm frame, having come up with a 6kPa tested capacity, we can say here that the panels are capable of withstanding equivalent pressures to what Cyclone Tracy may have exhibited. So Cyclone Tracy's design wind pressures based on their recorded wind speeds, came to about five 5.8kPa and this is tested at 6kPa.
The better the panel, the more sturdier, the better the build, obviously, the less issues you're going to have, because you know, you're investing quite a bit of money in such a system. Therefore, if I'm going to spend that sort of money well, I do want to get the maximum year or period I can out of it. And after testing and seeing how they can behave under a cyclone, under normal conditions, you can only assume they're going to be far more superior.
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