Posted on 06/29/2023 6:44:04 AM PDT by Paul46360
“I wonder if this was because of a design choice to use the most efficient panels rather than less efficient panels that perhaps need more maintenance but were hail resistant?”
I would say George is not from “realsville.”
My older brother lives in a suburb just north of Dallas.
He called me about six months ago to complain about his increase in home owners insurance. Up to $3500/year. Then he explained that he has had his roof replaced three times in twenty years due to hail storms.
China sending replacements Xi much happy.
So is Biden
American companies not so much
That also depends on how they wire them (parallel or series).
“There’s $50 million bucks down the toilet”
Meh... It’s not their money. They don’t care.
Build a steel roof over the solar panels to protect them from ice and hail?
Hah! Again, I say Hah!
‘Cause “I “thought of it first!
Hah! Fie upon you, foul copycat of “my” plan!
And “my steel solar roof cover” is on steel wheels and tracks with thick waterproof steel siding and sliding steel doors to keep the dust out.
Watching ebay closely...
I didn’t say I was the first to think of the idea. In fact, when it occurred to me, I figured it was so simple that any idiot could think of it, and I was right.
Sometimes dents can ‘repair’ themselves if the dents are not too deep and you live in a warm climate and your vehicle is usually parked outside in the sun. The metal on a car has a certain amount of ‘memory’ regarding it’s original shape. Sometimes repeated heating and cooling of the metal will cause it to ‘remember’ what it originally was. As I said, minor dings only.
Also the internet has several videos wherein ice or some other real cold substance is applied to small dents causing the metal to contract and sometimes ‘pop’ back to shape. I have done that a few times with some success.
YOW! Remind me to stay on your good side!
It’s all in fun.
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“That also depends on how they wire them (parallel or series).”
Strings imply in solar that panles are all in series.
Multiple strings are in parallel, my strings each have separate breakers.
Dents or cracks with allow rain water to enter electrical connections. GFI logic will see a short to chassis and grounding and halt ALL energy production from that inverter. Any significant resistance to ground will trip stuff.
I have seen a golf ball size hail.
Sounded like somebody is throwing stones at the house.
It broke lots of windows, dimpled cars, damaged roofs, etc.
The glass shop (only one) in our town was very busy for weeks!
Another brilliant colossal waste of money and supreme demonstration of Libtard stupidity
“ people should look into and fund deep earth drilling to power steam turbines...”
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Or something really radical such as Natural Gas.
I saw 3 to 5 inch hail balls on a June afternoon in Springfield, VA in 1967. In nearby Falls Church, a man was killed when a hail ball from this storm shattered a picture window behind his easy chair. The chards of glass cut him to pieces.
Good to know. POF mentioned the dents were deep so I would expect it wouldn’t work on them.
Yes, need to make the panels out of diamonds. And Unobtainium.
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