Did you drive your post or Dig a hole and fill in?
Dig. We had to use a miniex with a hydraulic post hole digger. Slope was too steep for a tracked skid steer (it was also wet and muddy as we had just had trees removed from the dam). There was only one guy around with a driver tall enough and he was backed up with fencing jobs.
I hear ya. Same problem.
They were all shipped together. I ordered via Practical Preppers (Engineer 775) as Sinclair didn’t seem to want to sell directly.
Kyle sold to me initially but I gather from his lack of response this time around he wants us to go through a reseller.
I probably would’ve built something if I had the time (at the time) and it wasn’t on the side of a dam. I wanted a straight line to get plumb and level rather than a plane that a different set up would introduce.
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!
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.
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?
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.
