March 4. This was a double-roof installation. One on a top section of roof and another on a lower porch section. We went through the soffit with conduit and then traversed across the underside with PVC. Joey and I picked out some matching textured paint which looked exactly like the color of the siding.It snowed on the day after we finished the rails, so I roped up and shoveled off the snow from the array. For the majority of the installation, the weather was (finally) amicable.
Here's the conduit that we painted. There's a "T" which splits the wires going to the inverter onto the above roof (over the soffit) and the porch roof. Sweet!
And this is the external position of the solar inverter, the meter, and the disconnect.The homeowner (who was a very cool guy with an english bulldog named Tank), decided kind of last minute that he wanted it outside. Well, SMA inverters (and Xantrex as well as many others) are rated for outdoor use, so we made it happen. All in all, it looked pretty smooth.
There's Tank, playing in the snow.
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I like the dog,Tank
ReplyDeleteNice job moving the outside, tell me he didn't force you to put if on the southern wall of the house? This would be a good test site to see how much loss is actually caused by the heat outside in the summertime.
ReplyDeleteYou guys do such good work, now that's what I'm talking Bubba.
its on an east wall. luckily. the inverters don't decrease in efficiency up to 104 F. couldn't have done it better.
ReplyDeleteon the first day i noticed a skateboard outside. i thought i belonged to one of their kids, but in fact it actually was Tank's skateboard. he just kind of wrestles with it, puts it in his mouth, jumps on it, runs around with it. Great personality.