Post your Ground Mount Setup
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RV10flyer
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It works. Of course when I see over 20 mph winds in the forecast I am scurrying around trying to get it taken down or secured better. My permanent arrays are all 4 x 4 pressure-treated posts in quikrete. They will be there when I’m gone.
Now that is mobile!
cs1234
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I was thinking of doing that with smaller wagons.. and putting cinder blocks in them for ballast. Just haven't decided on what wagon to use. Those are some nice looking wagons.
I was going to tent them though.. east/west on the same wagon. Want to find a wagon where I can use most of it as the support structure for the panel.
These are hay wagons, old and heavy duty- David Bradly and John Deer. You can buy them cheep with rotten beds. I cut new timbers with saw mill then painted them with spray gun The BM is mounted to 8x8 ash timbers with 10"L- 1/2" bolts/washers/nuts, then chained to wagon.. Those are facing south west for later/even sun due to living in a woods. The others in the back ground are mounted south onto steel cattle gates that swing up or down depending on time of year. They may come down now that I have more Bright Mounts. The sun is tricky living in the woods and figuring where they best work. I have 2 strings here in the pic. On a good day reach close to 6k. After 430pm south facing become shaded and south west extends the sun till about dark. I don't think the wagons will be perm but for now experimenting with what works best for me. Using them with the 18kpv.
So how do you run wire from the mobile panels to the charge controller? Laying on the ground?
cs1234
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I did that for a while on my external mobile mounts.. bunnies chewed em up. I put em in some electrical pvc laying on the ground and they leave it alone.. just don't glue all of em so you can change it around if need be.
I can even lawn mower over it, no problem.. as long as you aren't cutting too short. ?
BartHenry
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My current setup 
ghostwriter66
"Here - Hold my Beer"
Any particular reason you got them soooo high off the ground ... we normally try to keep ours less than a foot ...
ghostwriter66
"Here - Hold my Beer"
Excellent design -- assuming the ground posts 4x4's and the bracing is 2x6??
I notice there is NO cross bracing on the back tall sides -- will that ever be an issue??
And like I asked the other gentleman, is there a reason you started off with the bottom edge being (5) feet off the ground instead of closer??
42OhmsPA
What's in a title?
High off the ground so you don't have to shovel snow that slides off in front is my guess.
I didn't account for the 28-1/2" slope (thought it was a lot less until I got the zip level out) or it would have been much higher on the left side.
I didn't account for the 28-1/2" slope (thought it was a lot less until I got the zip level out) or it would have been much higher on the left side.
Balrog006
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Try him. I was just at Sinclair a bit ago to get my mount and they’re getting into selling packages direct-mounts-panels-inverters. Sinclair, Canadian Solar and Sol Ark.
BartHenry
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Yes, 2x6 on both sides of the 4x4 posts. The cross bracing is the 4x4s in the corners. The front edge is off the ground for 2 reasons...1 dogs, 2 i will eventually frame the sides and the front edge in to make a shed.
ghostwriter66
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Zwy
Emperor Of Solar
I have mine high enough to run the Toro Groundmaster with the roll cage under it in the summer. Never liked weeds and grass growing under an array as a drove by.
My mount seasonal tilts like his, I ensured I had 4 feet under the array when at full tilt for winter. Snow drifts in deep on anything where it catch, plus anything that might stick and slide off will add to the pile of snow at the bottom.
42OhmsPA
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Had bookmarked that one a while ago and planned to use it till I went with the tilting wood design. I still might use that for an E facing array.
Nice, I love it when people do there own thing.
