Solar Panels, for CIVIL discussion
That’s IF you don’t have any issues. These systems are pretty unreliable.
What is unreliable about solar grids? What issues have you had with yours?
So two pages later what else was learned about solar other than some folks struggle to contain their emotions and that reduces the amount of exchanged information available for people who want to know.
With that subject dead. Why do people keep saying solar don't work? I understand solar has issues and there are several issues to be mentioned but everyone I know with solar has little to no issues with their solar grids.
The area I see that is the biggest problem is the salesmen pushing these systems in areas that won't give them a Max return on sunshine. I monitored the sun pattern for 2 years before calling a solar installer and I got quotes from a dozen installers. Some wanted to put the panels on my front porch. My porch faces the East and I have a 50 foot blue spruce 10 feet away. I would have had 8 panels getting 1 to 2 hours of sunshine a day. I fired him mid sentence.
I have the only tall house around as I'm restoring an old Vic so my roof gets a lot of sun. Most of my panels face south on a 45* roof. 35* is ideal in Iowa. the 45 gets me more sun in the winter. I have 3 panels facing east, never ever do that it was a waste. I have 3 that face West and they put out more power in the summer and less in the winter.