I think modules have uneven heating whenever snow is melting off,
with some of the module covered with frozen snow and adjacent
portions of the module exposed to direct sunlight.
At 03:53 PM 1/3/2013, you wrote:
With heat tape I'd be worried about uneven heating of the module
surface and possi
With heat tape I'd be worried about uneven heating of the module surface
and possible cracking.
I have toyed with the idea of running a length of 2" or 3" conduit under
the bottom of the modules on my shop roof. It would be capped on the end
and have 3/8" holes drilled in it every foot. It wou
i have done this on a particularly problematic installation here in our heavy
mount shasta snow country - where the deep snow would freeze to ice on the
module, and as it crept down the array, it would peel off the bottom edge of
the module frame, usually resulting in broken glass/destroyed mod
Hello Wrenches,
There has been a lot of discussion about how to get snow off of
modules. It was even suggested that we might run power back through
the modules to warm them. Indeed that was tested, and seemed to take
a lot of power for somewhat promising results.
A customer asked me about
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