Put your beer can on the panel and adjust the angle so the beer can shadow is the smallest it can be then that is the most productive for the time of year and day.
I have 10 - 370w panels laying flat on a flat porch roof and I still can get over 3000w occasionally. I have another 10 panels just leaning on the back fence. 5 of them are 310w panels, and the other string is 375w panels. Combined they also hit over 3000w occasionally. I also quit cleaning them 2 years ago. Rain does a good job. I never saw any increase washing them. Last I would suggest using Solar Assistant to monitor your system. It costs $50. but I think its worth it. Even Watchpower is better than that factory head your using.
@@Gary-ee3kq Well the majority of the weight is against a block retaining wall. The land behind me was undeveloped until a couple of years ago. Under current building codes all new construction must be above the crest of the road. They brought in hundreds of dump truck loads of dirt. Then they installed a 24" retaining wall and then a 6' vinyl fence. The panels sit on 4x4 stringers they use to ship billet aluminum on. Got them from work. This is just temporary although it's been 18 months. I was moving some panels around today in preparation for my next idea. I took down a bunch of chain link fence and I'm going to build a rack. Sort of like uneven bars for gymnastics using the posts and top rails. I have it so I might as well use it.
New subscriber here. Nice video. I am considering making my own ground mount myself. I might use lumber or pipe, not sure yet. But I would like to adjust for seasonal tilt like you are doing. It would be cool to have a main axle in the middle that would be the hinge so to speak for the array. Might be cool to have an actuator (also home brewed) in the future. Lots of ideas. Now I just have to get off my tail bone and get er done! Haha. Thanks again for your video. All the best from north Texas.
Knees getting a good work out testing. I got no money in my 2x4 fixed mount with 1 end of the panels on the ground. I set them to 20 degrees. Where you find the optimal angle you are mentioning?
the bigger the angle the better the power in the morning and evening you made that test it seems like at high noon, there it makes (as seen) virtually no difference wether 40 35 or 30°
did you pay attention? your level wasn't casting a shadow. meaning you was the best at 90% to the sun. the perfect spot to be. isn't that strange? how you caught that.
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Put a soupcan on them to find angle, adjust till shadow disappears, no math involved and easy to do a few times a year as angles change from the sun.
Nice i wish my yard was bigger.😂 i just install 10 x 400 watt panels and that was like 1/4 of my yard. 😢
cool. next time, please include a slide that summarizes the angles and energy plz =]
Yes. I didn't find a table of the results when I scrolled the video . I wont watch.
Nice 👍 good to know thanks.
Put your beer can on the panel and adjust the angle so the beer can shadow is the smallest it can be then that is the most productive for the time of year and day.
I have 10 - 370w panels laying flat on a flat porch roof and I still can get over 3000w occasionally. I have another 10 panels just leaning on the back fence. 5 of them are 310w panels, and the other string is 375w panels. Combined they also hit over 3000w occasionally.
I also quit cleaning them 2 years ago. Rain does a good job. I never saw any increase washing them.
Last I would suggest using Solar Assistant to monitor your system. It costs $50. but I think its worth it. Even Watchpower is better than that factory head your using.
How the fence posts doing with all that weight up against them?
@@Gary-ee3kq Well the majority of the weight is against a block retaining wall. The land behind me was undeveloped until a couple of years ago. Under current building codes all new construction must be above the crest of the road. They brought in hundreds of dump truck loads of dirt. Then they installed a 24" retaining wall and then a 6' vinyl fence. The panels sit on 4x4 stringers they use to ship billet aluminum on. Got them from work.
This is just temporary although it's been 18 months. I was moving some panels around today in preparation for my next idea. I took down a bunch of chain link fence and I'm going to build a rack. Sort of like uneven bars for gymnastics using the posts and top rails. I have it so I might as well use it.
@@Tryp-j9d If you know you know, and obviously you don't.
Hey, clean the panels then apply RainX. 🍀
New subscriber here. Nice video. I am considering making my own ground mount myself. I might use lumber or pipe, not sure yet. But I would like to adjust for seasonal tilt like you are doing. It would be cool to have a main axle in the middle that would be the hinge so to speak for the array. Might be cool to have an actuator (also home brewed) in the future. Lots of ideas. Now I just have to get off my tail bone and get er done! Haha. Thanks again for your video. All the best from north Texas.
Very good but a tip... put a summary with the results in the end, so one can easily compare.
Knees getting a good work out testing. I got no money in my 2x4 fixed mount with 1 end of the panels on the ground. I set them to 20 degrees. Where you find the optimal angle you are mentioning?
I have three angles for my ground mount (summer/fall & spring/winter). When should I change the angle?
May 4th
August 5th
November 4th
Give or take a week or two. Not critical.
I got those dates by counting the days between the solstice’s.
@@taylormills08 what angles for those dates? new to this solar stuff.
Set your panels to the steeper angle, you'll get slightly less at noon but much more morning & evening for more KWh total through the day.
the bigger the angle the better the power in the morning and evening you made that test it seems like at high noon, there it makes (as seen) virtually no difference wether 40 35 or 30°
Used cracked viyl 235w solar panels. 2.35kw display putting out 1.71kw
That is pretty good this time of the year. My 3 month old panels 4000 watts is producing max 3300 watts in michigan. It was around 4100 watts in july.
❤️💯🙂, Nice
did you pay attention? your level wasn't casting a shadow. meaning you was the best at 90% to the sun. the perfect spot to be. isn't that strange? how you caught that.