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Snow vs. panel orientation
When I joined this board there was frequent mention of dealing with snow covered panels. Much of the reason that I settled on ~45 degrees. It worked - any snow is almost always shed by 11am. During t…1 · -
Why do east facing panels really outperform west facing?
Panels follow roof contours. House is not exactly south facing. Pretty close. Southern array performs great except for summer months. Panels at 42 degrees to maximize winter production. East and west…1 · -
Re: So easy to fix many bad solar panels.
Wonder why they do that? Sounds messy. Yea, takes about 5 minutes to do a complete diode swap on my panels - from start to finish including accessing the diodes and finishing up. One panel read 13 vo…1 · -
Re: Timely to stock up prior to tariffs?
They just endured a couple days of quite severe weather. Somehow one of the three eaglets was inadvertently stepped on and stuck and has since expired. Much sorrow was endured by the fans of the sho…1 · -
Re: Coping with winter time blues?
Vit D, Magnesium and Zinc are on the Mt Rushmore of supplements. I take a LOT of supplements with no written proof of positive results since I don’t do doctors unless death is imminent. Long story th…2 ·