Mounting PV panels in gardens ( For nemesis)

[Nemesis]

(29 August 2012, 22:49)Skean Dhude Wrote: Hell No. Keep it here if you don't mind. I'm thinking of the same.

Sure here are some of my thoughts:


I was looking around tonight and the price of panels has come right down, I found 250watt "one" panel for £158 that’s very cheap, and save space, that one panel equal 3 of mine and I am still 10 watt less, then I am seeing 100 watt ones for like £109, this was always going to happen and it is good to see, in time we all can have quite large off grid setups.


I will tell you why I mounted mine on a pole, because I wanted something I could turn to face morning sun and afternoon sun I just flip the bar and over they go.


I also have the advantage of being able to mount on my truck which I am looking to buy now, if I need to get out of dodge so to say, I used scaffold because of the weight I did not want to see my panels one morning blown all over the neighbourhood, but I have since purchased small all metal scaffold that will be fitted to my BOV, in advance of any problems we might face.


The brackets will fit both the fat scaffold bar and this smaller steel bar, and the brackets I used are cheap car exhaust ones. (very strong)


Again reason for the bar over say a wood build, one height mine are way up in the sky and two, carrying two people could easy carry the four panels on the bar, like you would carry a dead deer kind of thought.





What matters?


Location: how close will the panels be to the battery bank, allow for the wire run both power loss and expense the further the distance.


Height: how high you go is how much the materials cost will matter, higher equal more money, scaffold is cheap.


What high objects could block sun, a tree for example, or house shadow so on.


You want to keep them batteries protected in winter, build a box for them, a lot do not need a vent, but a small hole won't hurt, just like a torch batt, they will lose power in the cold.


Do you want everyone to see them, I am afraid this is twofold problem, one if you have them to low you run risk of easy theft and chance of less sun getting to them, two if you have them to high you run risk of more knowing you have them, a flag beacon if shtf.


I would go high because I have cctv and a yard dog, plus very low crime rate area I live, I also went with the scaffold because I cemented the poles in the ground 3 foot plus, it won't be easy to steal mine.


Wild life might be a problem, chewing cables and such.

I feel I am telling you guys what you already would know