attaching solar panels
I was wondering if I should use well nuts or just wood screws to attach the panels to the roof, of course a healthy amount of Dicor. I was going to use 1" stainless wood screws.
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This is what I am going to do with my roof situation...
I am totally against drilling into the roof on my OFF-ROAD POPUP trailer which is made up of Fiberglass with foam under that between 2-3 inch wood rafters every so many feet apart...
I don't think I would be able to stand on my trailer roof...
I have a pretty good solid edges of the roof especially on the sides near the top.
I am thinking of mounting metal brackets on the side edge to support lite weight Aluminum UNISTRUT angles across the roof. This can lay on the roof but not drilled into the roof anywhere. Maybe in the middle area of the roof I can dicor-in some additional material to go between the unistrut and the fiberglass roof.
something like this maybe on both front and back ends of my roof where I have room for panels...
This shows mounting to the top edge of the roof but I was thinking of mounting to the side of the roof and extend up abit and then mounting the unistrut. I have good strong back board on the sides portion of the roof.
The beauty of the Unistrut Angles you can slide the mounting hardware to fit almost any installation you come up against...
No harm to the roof itself...
Roy Ken
I am totally against drilling into the roof on my OFF-ROAD POPUP trailer which is made up of Fiberglass with foam under that between 2-3 inch wood rafters every so many feet apart...
I don't think I would be able to stand on my trailer roof...
I have a pretty good solid edges of the roof especially on the sides near the top.
I am thinking of mounting metal brackets on the side edge to support lite weight Aluminum UNISTRUT angles across the roof. This can lay on the roof but not drilled into the roof anywhere. Maybe in the middle area of the roof I can dicor-in some additional material to go between the unistrut and the fiberglass roof.
something like this maybe on both front and back ends of my roof where I have room for panels...
This shows mounting to the top edge of the roof but I was thinking of mounting to the side of the roof and extend up abit and then mounting the unistrut. I have good strong back board on the sides portion of the roof.
The beauty of the Unistrut Angles you can slide the mounting hardware to fit almost any installation you come up against...
No harm to the roof itself...
Roy Ken
