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    First time mounting (solar panels)

    I'm using super electrical struts for my racking. Wires fit neatly into the rails to keep them off the roof. Attaching to metal roof with special attachment, See picture! Super struts are 10 foot for $21.00 if you buy 10 or more, at lowes or Home Depot. Stainless bolts and washers extra.
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    First time mounting (solar panels)

    I'm thinking the same thing!
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    Just smart enough to be dangerous!

    Here electric cost 0.12 a KWH and they pay 0.02 when you send them power via net metering. But it's much cheaper to let them be my batteries and I pay 0.10 a KWH at night and when I'm not generating much power via my solar set up. Vs paying 0.40 a KWH to pay back a lithium battery bank...
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    First time mounting (solar panels)

    A solar lease is just that a lease. The company owns the panels until the lease is paid off. About a dozen years or so. The new owner would have to pickup the lease or return them to the leasing company. Now someone could have purchased the panels and they came with the house. Lets hope the...
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    Solar panels 9 weeks underwater and still work!

    The crazy part is ever the panels that are shattered work like they are new! They were underwater and in the mud for 9 weeks!
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    Solar panels 9 weeks underwater and still work!

    Each panel had an optimizer , so I have a bunch of them but don't know how to test them. They are all sealed and no water in them as far as I can see.
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    Solar panels 9 weeks underwater and still work!

    After hurricane Ide my neighbors solar panels ended up face down in 3 ft. of water in the mud in front of my house in a small Bayou. Yesterday, after 9 weeks, we hooked on to them with a tractor and pull them out. Instead of putting them by the hwy for pickup I decided to at least get the...
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    What are the Beat solar panels price and output? What do you have? I'm in the US. No batteries grid tie. Universal racking.

    Well with 4 - 12volt 100 watts each. Hooked in series/ parell to get 24 volts. The most I have ever gotten was 300 watts with the panels at the specified angle for our area and time of year, summer! Most of the time under 200 watts!
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    What are the Beat solar panels price and output? What do you have? I'm in the US. No batteries grid tie. Universal racking.

    I'm looking for 24 solar panels no more than 39" wide to fit my universal tracking. Voltage can vary as I didn't but the invertor yet!
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    How many, see picture, metal roof attachments do I need?

    This is a picture of my racking system. The solar panels will go on eather side of the blue guide and stainless steel bolt, under the 3/8 x 1 1/2" S/S washer. Giving a 3/8" gap between panels.
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