Solar Panel Upgrade
Thought that I’d share my recent changes made to my solar panels. We bought unit used, and panels were not adjustable for different seasons or different latitudes. So, I mounted perforated angle to pa...
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memtb wrote:
Just broke camp this morning, from 3 weeks of boondocking in the mountains. Solar panel adjustable system worked great. We did have a couple of issues though. First,yesterday, swept the snow off of the roof, in preparation for today’s leaving. “WOW” is that new FlexArmor roof slick!!! Wishing I had “cleats”or golf shoes! We had a little winter storm start coming through at about 3 AM this morning. Putting those panels back into place with winds gusting to 30 +mph while 13’ off the ground on a slick roof....ages you “very” rapidly!
Yeah, linear actuators become an attractive option when the bones start getting old or you want to keep them intact. ;)
I thought about installing the actuators on my tilt mechanism but I have four-way tilt so it became a lot of expense and a design challenge. In the real world, I don't do any camping in the Winter so the panel stays in it's tilted position throughout the Winter while in storage.
