Flat mounted solar panel on RV roof
All I can find are discussions about solar panel tilt with respect to the sun. What about with respect to water runoff? Is that an issue? Or can you just mount them flat? Previous two panels f...
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BFL13 wrote:
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"• Do not install the module horizontally. Failure to comply may result in excess dirt or white efflorescence (glass disease)."
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Even my ~10% tilted panels get filthy when down in Florida. A good cleaning before boondocking is mandatory.
And small puddles of water still collect on them. If that's a problem they will need more than 5% tilt as even ~10% doesn't seem to do the trick.
"Glass disease"? Hmmmm,
Call me lazy (true!) but think I'll just risk the ~2% tilt on the new panel. Don't like the idea of higher brackets catching low-hanging tree branches and such. And we'll see if it shorts out before the ~10% tilted panels because of "glass disease". :W
EDIT: and thanks for looking that up BFL. I thought I had heard of that that 5% tilt somewhere ...
scrubjaysnest: Good to hear from you again, as I don't frequent the Trailmanor owners forum anymore.
