Ok, that makes sense. On the vertical mount: Yeah I've seen lots of pictures of people making a fence out of bifacial panels. They say you actually get pretty good production out of that, and yeah they typically won't collect snow unless you're getting the kind of freezing rain that sticks to everything.
A followup question on the bifacial panels: If they're on a roof, does the top side wear out more than the bottom? Could you get more lifespan by flipping them over every 10 years or so? I know there's accumulated damage from UV light, but is there also damage from having half of the circuit producing less power than the other half? What about damage just from time? They're about the same price as single sided panels, and if I can get more life out of them by turning them over that seems like a no-brainer. -Adam On Sun, Sep 21, 2025 at 2:16 AM TJ Trout <[email protected]> wrote: > Yes nameplate is before bifacial gain. > > Steve they make a bunch of extra power if you can elevate them to get sun > on the backside, you can even mount them flat like a fence and you make a > lot of power with no snow issues > > On Sat, Sep 20, 2025, 7:04 PM Steve Jones <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> they have bifacial panels? as in both sides produce? other than rotation >> to dump snow, what is the purpose? >> >> On Sat, Sep 20, 2025, 8:24 AM Adam Moffett <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> When they tell you a bifacial panel is 450W are they counting one side >>> only? >>> -- >>> AF mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com >>> >> -- >> AF mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com >> > -- > AF mailing list > [email protected] > http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com >
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