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Exposed fastener metal roof penetration?

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Trying to figure out the odds and ends needed for my offgrid cabin. Looking around I havent really seen a good roof penetration method for exposed fastener metal roofs. Seams like the best method is a roof boot and 180* bend of conduit? This is going to look kind of ugly and not very low profile.

The roof boot
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I'm going to use S5 brackets and unistrut for the mounts and racking. Doing 2 strings of 235w pannels.
 
Can you go through the side of the house instead of through the roof?
 
Roof boot and LB is exactly what I did. Short piece of pipe to a box tucked under the edge of the panels.

And now I get to do it again. The 2 boxes I used are full and I'm going to add 2 more strings of panels.
 
1201 said:
Can you go through the side of the house instead of through the roof?
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I dont really want to do that due to my pannels being almost directly over my utility room in the middle of the house. It would add alot of conduit, wire and wouldnt look as nice.

I did think of a LB but not a LB with roof p
Boot. Thanks.
 
Also pick the smallest boot available for your conduit size. It will be shorter than the larger universal ones.
 
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