How safe are roof mounted solar panels
Just wondering if anyone has ever had a solar panel fly off while driving in high winds? Doesn't look like the 2 screws for each of the 4 mounting brackets are secure enough to handle driving down th...
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Shadow Catcher wrote:
The roof on our teardrop is Filon and our panel large. I did not want to drill holes and found ABS mounts that I imported from China. I called 3M and talked with one of their engineers about the use of 3M VHB tape and how much surface area on the mounts and surface prep I would need. He made a recommendation which I followed to the letter.
Three years ago we took a trip to California, hit those 40+ MPH head winds at 70MPH with trucks passing in the other direction. Wind loads, way up there and held on with tape.
For a number of years, Escape used VHB tape to mount panels on their fiberglass "egg trailers". My panel has been up there for 4 years with no problems, but they did have one blow off a trailer, and have since switched to epoxy.
