Shattered solar panel with weed wacker

[pollenface]

I need some ideas for building cheap racks

all of mine are currently built from scrap, stuff i had laying around. They haven't blown off the roof yet. One day I'll get around to doing a proper job of it though

 

[Brucey]

How did you do that ..are they anchored .. I have got a lot more panels stored that I don’t have the motivation to mount… I see a good use for round up in my future with this..

Just laying on the ground, held down by hopes and dreams. Not a lot of wind here and they generally stay where they are (if they were tilted so wind could get underneath then that would be a different story). I do have to figure out some kind of angled mounts for winter they won't do well with snow how they are now.

 

[Daddy Tanuki]

Damn I totally didn't think of that. We used to have rescue / pet deer to pin with an 8 foot fence and the wild deer would jump over the fence to get in there with the rescue dear.
Now I'm concerned about my grilled array.

be like the Chick fil a Cows... Eat morre Deer!

 

[Brucey]

be like the Chick fil a Cows... Eat morre Deer!

I walk on my panels all the time when trimming, but I wonder if the deer with their hooves could cause enough pressure to damage them.

 

[Mattb4]

You folks that walk on panels must be a bit lighter on your feet than me. At my 1000lb dead-weight if I walked on any solar panel it would be a twisted mass of aluminum and shattered glass.

I do have to watch when I use the weed eater to avoid thrown rocks. I did some trimming a few days back and even being careful there was grass particles and weed juice on my panels that needed cleaning off.

 

[42OhmsPA]

I need some ideas for building cheap racks

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Thread 'DIY season adjustable ground mount build'

Dec 5, 2022

My measly 4.5kW and 1.65kW arrays are a bit undersized for my sol-ark 15k so I'm adding two more arrays of 18 panels each (400-450W bifacials, still need to buy). The rack will be constructed with some c channel pallet rack beams I got for cheap from Facebook marketplace and ironridge XR100 rails.

Old pallet rack beams


Pretty beefy C channel. Cutting and drilling all the holes is gonna take awhile.


The holes will be 20-24" diameter and 36-44" deep depending on the post. Digging with a clam-shell post hole digger (not fun).


Got the first and last...

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Thread 'DIY ground mount - laminated posts..'

Aug 21, 2023

I had another one of my bright ideas...

I'm considering using 3 2x6's glued and screwed together with the grain alternating to make my posts for the mount.

Why is this a bad idea?

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• Forum: DIY Solar General Discussion

 

[Zwy]

I need some ideas for building cheap racks

Buy used, they are out there.

I paid $4K for the tornado ones, was about $20K worth of mount. I've only used half of it. I found mine on FB Marketplace.

 

[73powerstroke]

Hell, round-up the whole area around the panels ….brown grass is cool if ya throw in some colored river rocks and dried river wood ….bugs move on another place ….don’t have to worry about weeds

all of mine are currently built from scrap, stuff i had laying around. They haven't blown off the roof yet. One day I'll get around to doing a proper job of it though

What did you actually use?

 

[73powerstroke]

I walk on my panels all the time when trimming, but I wonder if the deer with their hooves could cause enough pressure to damage them.

Instantly

 

[featherlite]

my first trip to orangeburg was over 50 years ago… was only 60 min out of my home Charleston … orangeburg girls were fun there back then..

Forty years ago, I was on a motorcycle camping trip with an Indiana buddy of mine headed towards Charleston, SC, and we stopped late in the afternoon for a beer in Orangeburg, SC but it was in a dry county. Somehow we met a guy named Woody who ran a local pawn shop and belonged to a motorcycle club that could legally serve alcohol.

Woody was a large man with a huge beard and had a long Bowies knife hanging from his belt. When we got to the club, it was filled with half drunk bikers, all heavily tattooed with enough guns to fill an armory. I was scared sh**less. We planned only to spend the night, but ended up staying two days at the club. It turned out to be one of the wildest two days of our lives. We still talk about the adventure after all these years.

 

[Bananaman321]

Forty years ago, I was on a motorcycle camping trip with an Indiana buddy of mine headed towards Charleston, SC, and we stopped late in the afternoon for a beer in Orangeburg, SC but it was in a dry county. Somehow we met a guy named Woody who ran a local pawn shop and belonged to a motorcycle club that could legally serve alcohol.

Woody was a large man with a huge beard and had a long Bowies knife hanging from his belt. When we got to the club, it was filled with half drunk bikers, all heavily tattooed with enough guns to fill an armory. I was scared sh**less. We planned only to spend the night, but ended up staying two days at the club. It turned out to be one of the wildest two days of our lives. We still talk about the adventure after all these years.

Funny you mentioned that me and my father bought a walk behind lawn mower from woody years ago at the pawn shop

 

[Bananaman321]

Forty years ago, I was on a motorcycle camping trip with an Indiana buddy of mine headed towards Charleston, SC, and we stopped late in the afternoon for a beer in Orangeburg, SC but it was in a dry county. Somehow we met a guy named Woody who ran a local pawn shop and belonged to a motorcycle club that could legally serve alcohol.

Woody was a large man with a huge beard and had a long Bowies knife hanging from his belt. When we got to the club, it was filled with half drunk bikers, all heavily tattooed with enough guns to fill an armory. I was scared sh**less. We planned only to spend the night, but ended up staying two days at the club. It turned out to be one of the wildest two days of our lives. We still talk about the adventure after all these years.

I found this the moment in an old house I renovated years ago in sycamore South Carolina



Probably one of the more accurate thermometers on the property here they sure don't make stuff like they used to

 

[J.H.]

Forty years ago, I was on a motorcycle camping trip with an Indiana buddy of mine headed towards Charleston, SC, and we stopped late in the afternoon for a beer in Orangeburg, SC but it was in a dry county. Somehow we met a guy named Woody who ran a local pawn shop and belonged to a motorcycle club that could legally serve alcohol.

Woody was a large man with a huge beard and had a long Bowies knife hanging from his belt. When we got to the club, it was filled with half drunk bikers, all heavily tattooed with enough guns to fill an armory. I was scared sh**less. We planned only to spend the night, but ended up staying two days at the club. It turned out to be one of the wildest two days of our lives. We still talk about the adventure after all these years.

Haaaa I spent my whole youth in the low country near Charleston…
a great place for every civilized vice.. it was a dry place but there were bars on every corner…??

50 years ago once you got back up into the back country swamps near st stephens, , Hell Hole Swamp or other places , if you got in trouble you were on yer own … even the cops would not come there in gator country at night.….The gators cleaned whatever may have happened…
Many a person went and just never returned…

I miss the good ole days…

 

[pollenface]

What did you actually use?

Lengths of aluminium angle

 

[73powerstroke]

Lengths of aluminium angle

Nice. Wonder how cheap a foot it is nowadays