Rethinking My Solar System
My portable "Receiver Hitch" solar sun tracking system works fantastic wintering in AZ where the sun is seldom not shining, but as mentioned before, here on the coast in North Bend OR, it leaves a lot...
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RJsfishin wrote:
I make my own aluminum brackets, so how much clearance do ya all leave between the bottom edge of the panels and the roof ? It seems I would want x amount for cleaning under them ??
When we put our solar panels on almost 10 years ago, tiltable brackets were really expensive, so we just added another panel to make up for that loss. We have a 40-foot motorhome with a very high roof, covered with panels, and no way was I going to be going up there with any regularity to tilt panels.
I never even thought about cleaning underneath them, though, and I can say now that the only thing I'm unhappy about is not having tiltable panels.
Ours have at most an inch clearance and I can spray water under there but it's never going to be clean. And every time I try to clean under the edges, I end up cutting my hand on the corner of the panels--those things are sharp.
If it's not an extreme hassle, my advice is to build in tiltability, if nothing else than to be able to clean under them.
