skyking1
Solar Enthusiast
Here is our playground:

The house is skewed around to 200 degrees or so, which is ideal for morning clouds/afternoon sun which is so common in any part of Western Washington.
The roofs are assymetrical, with the southern facing roof being 264" (22') long on both the upper and the West Wing roofs. This was purpose built for solar.
Upper roof is not obstructed by trees above the horizon created by the hill to the south. I do not see any shading happening that will darken a string up there, no matter how it is arranged.
The roof pitch is not ideal for solar, at 3:12. It is good for my personal survival. I will not tilt and the roof is therefore at 14 degrees.
It will have standing seam metal on it starting Thursday.
My plan is to use S5! clips and put rails to that. I hear iron mountain talked about, is that the ticket?
I have Oatey roof jacks for conduit. I plan on two at the far (east ) end of that upper roof, and make an 18" clear path top and bottom and a 36" clear path up the near (west) end for NFPA regs.
Available space after removing those paths is 228" tall by 396" wide.
This will accommodate 3 rows of shorter panels in portrait. The big 80" panels would go to landscape.
Our goal is to fill that space first.
It will be somewhere near 8K of panels in two strings.
The West wing roof near us is the stepchild roof. It gets morning shade from the 2nd story.
I want panels on that to a target of 11~12K total.
That roof is 228" tall by 180" wide after removing the 36" path from along that wall, the logical place due to shade.
We can leave more than that out and just use the bottom edge and then up the west edge to minimize that shade effect.

The house is skewed around to 200 degrees or so, which is ideal for morning clouds/afternoon sun which is so common in any part of Western Washington.
The roofs are assymetrical, with the southern facing roof being 264" (22') long on both the upper and the West Wing roofs. This was purpose built for solar.
Upper roof is not obstructed by trees above the horizon created by the hill to the south. I do not see any shading happening that will darken a string up there, no matter how it is arranged.
The roof pitch is not ideal for solar, at 3:12. It is good for my personal survival. I will not tilt and the roof is therefore at 14 degrees.
It will have standing seam metal on it starting Thursday.
My plan is to use S5! clips and put rails to that. I hear iron mountain talked about, is that the ticket?
I have Oatey roof jacks for conduit. I plan on two at the far (east ) end of that upper roof, and make an 18" clear path top and bottom and a 36" clear path up the near (west) end for NFPA regs.
Available space after removing those paths is 228" tall by 396" wide.
This will accommodate 3 rows of shorter panels in portrait. The big 80" panels would go to landscape.
Our goal is to fill that space first.
It will be somewhere near 8K of panels in two strings.
The West wing roof near us is the stepchild roof. It gets morning shade from the 2nd story.
I want panels on that to a target of 11~12K total.
That roof is 228" tall by 180" wide after removing the 36" path from along that wall, the logical place due to shade.
We can leave more than that out and just use the bottom edge and then up the west edge to minimize that shade effect.