Adjustable Wooden Solar Ground Mount Array Rails N Panels PT 2
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 23 ต.ค. 2024
- Here we are finishing up our Array build. Railing system by altE Store - Ironridge XR100 rails, XR Universal Module Clamp & Slotted L Foot. Panels - Solarever USA Module HC 60M 360 Watts. Railing system is KEY to secure panel connection and ease of installation.
One of the best built array structures I have seen in a while, great job.
Thanks, appreciate it and thanks for the view!
Great job, very nice work!
Great result, thanks for sharing all the ingredients to the build, much appreciated.
Thanks for checking it out, it wasn't too bad to build. 🙂
Looks great! Giving me some ideas for my panels. Thanks a lot!
Thanks for giving it a view, good luck in your build!
Looks like great content too looking forward to seeing more
if you had moved post 1 thru 6 the otherside of the main frames 4 inch square posts ,you could have used 1 length for both adjustments, land the post beside the 4 inch frame post would have enabled you to have 2 diffent holes drilled through the uprights for both winter and summer just a thought tbh :)
I like a thinker...maybe for future expansion! Thanks for the view!
Just a thought. Is it possible to have both summer and winter length supports bolted on either side of your supports. They would each swing/pivot freely on it's bolt. The one not in use can pivot out of the way and the correct length one can be set in place. No need to remove anything. Great set up by the way. well done.
Thanks for the view and comment, sounds like a good idea!
Dude! Genius work my brother. I’m going to do the exact same thing. Exceptional carpentry work. Very nice sir. I love this concept. I actually like burying the posts like you seem to have done for rigidity. My only wonder is how long this can last? What kind of design life you think we could get off of a set up like this. Brilliant man. And THANKS for sharing.
Thanks man, you will definitely want to check your wind speeds for your area to make sure its not gonna blow away! :) Uncle Google says, "over 60 years for wood treated with pentachlorophenol, copper naphthenate, ACZA, or CCA" which is basic pressure treated wood. panel live is about 25 yrs so I figured it would last til Im ready to give up! Thanks for the view! SFMF
Stain when Cutting - Reapply as needed in Future
@@markwarrenseadog2349 Yes Sir! The ends of pressure treated material should be sealed...its actually a building code. IRC 2018 - R317.1.1 Field Treatment, Field cut ends, notches and drilled holes of preservative treated wood shall be treated in the field in accordance with AWPA M4. :) Thanks for watching!
instead of attaching the adjustment board at the bottom; attach it above the diagonal support and then drill several holes in the adjustment board to change the angle of the panels.
Nice! That's a good idea! Might try it on the future expansion if I ever fall into more money. Thanks for the idea and the view!
good work! 👏
Thanks for your comment and the view!
Thanks for sharing! Are you not afraid that some hard wind will rip it all off some day?
@jasperwammes4806 For my location, I'm not too concerned. I'm in the Western portion of Maryland. Wind speeds for my location are nominal design 3-second gust wind speeds at 33 ft. above ground at 115 mph. Although that sounds like a lot, the terrain around me is mountains and I am tucked into a hollow. If I was in the wide open with no tree cover or wind breaks, I may have had an engineer look at it for design values on the 4x6 post, but I am pretty confident in it being there until it rots! Thanks for the view and comment/question!
@@DumbGrunt0311 sounds pretty good than 👍
Thanks for replying 😁
What you probably should have just done so the signature and get 31 solar panels for $8,000 something dollars and their inverters for $1,249 they are 6, 548 Watts each you need two of them for 120 and 240 volts and you can line up to like six or nine of them the batteries cost a bit more but usually cheaper than anybody else's and they got 5 KW batteries already at 48 volts each. They have three locations they're major locations in Texas but they try to get the shipment to you as quick as possible so they have three locations but they're solar panels are 455 watts each. Of course you could have bought one of your solar panels kits with all that included for $16, 000 so odd dollars and got it with four five KW batteries each and you'd also have to pay taxes and the shipment is free as long as you live in the United States.
Yes, I looked at them but everything was on pre-order when I bought this package last year. They have a lot of options now, maybe looking at them for expansion. Thanks for checking it out and the comments, really appreciate it!
I was thinking of doing unistrut for my up coming mounting system but the cost is absolutely insane now. 4 years ago it was like $20 for a 10ft strut but now it's $44! No thanks! I was going to go all metal for Mt system but the cost of metal has skyrocketed.
I had the same experience with the cost of unistrut. Switched to pressure treated frame and Irion Ridge Rails, Iron Ridge System cost a little more than the unistut to connect to the pressure treated frame but was A LOT easier and weighed half as much. Thanks for the view!
I like it and it is cheap,but you underestimate the power off wind
I'm pretty much down in a hole, I certainly wouldn't have this array out in the wide open. Thanks for the view and comment!
why didn't you use pipe inside of pipe to hold the angles? that way you could just pull a pin and raise or lower the angle to insert the pin in the 2nd direction.
When I built this thing, unistrut was $38, steel pipe was way worse. I intended to built the whole thing out of stl pipe but couldn't afford it. Thank for watching!
Why wouldn't my 2x4s hold mine I use regular 2x4s some of them are heat treated for what you need to be treated and some of them or not he treat it which does not need to be treated and I am in construction worker while used to be a construction worker I did it for 13 and a half years I built houses like what you live in also built duplexes apartment buildings built many other things too. But my solar panels are sitting on 2x4s and they handled up to 90 mph winds.
When I built this array I used the span charts out of the 2018 IRC for 2x6. I used a 40 lb snow load but with the winter angle I should have to worry about snow sitting on them. Thanks for the views and comments! See ya on the next one!
* Should NOT have to worry about snow loads! 🤣
That’s sweet , just subbed
Thank you!
How many watts is that system? Pretty sizable!
Its 9720W as shown but with the reconfiguration of the new inverters I'm only using 8640W now. (3) of the panels are not connected to the inverters anymore.
I really don’t think you should angle for the solstices. If you went a few degrees short of the winter solstice, you’d be optimum in February and October, as well as August and April where the summer solstice is concerned, while your December and June would be what your October and August are now - at least as far as angles are concerned.
Shooting for the maximum angles isn’t as efficient because there are 0 days spent beyond those maximum angles.
But awesome construction.
I was just shooting for a little more optimization of the panels in the winter. From what I have read with the 2-season adjustment you go from 71.1% to 75.2% optimum performance, not a whole lot but, in the winter every little bit helps. Thank for the view and stick around, I will be adjusting them soon if you want to check that out.
@@DumbGrunt0311 you bet I will. I’ll be doing mine anytime from this August to Feb next year if I’ve got any luck.
Figure out the middle set it that’s what I did
Thanks for the advice...still learning and moving forward! Thanks for the view!
Why iron ridge vs uni strut?
Iron ridge comes with an "L" bracket that allows you to adjust the height of the rail up and down. (Keeps your panels nice n flat, uniform) If I would have used uni strut I would have had to shim under the strut to adjust any deviation in the racks or substrate (depending on what you mount to) Also, the panels are 40 mm thick, uni strut connectors have short bolts and I would have had to buy additional longer bolts. Unistrut is steel and weighed a lot more than the aluminum iron ridge. Also Iron Ridge has connectors that are very simple to install the panels with. Unistrut has a spring loaded screw connector. This rail system cost me about $500 dollars more to buy then the uni strut and was made for solar panels (very easy installation) Uni strut is made for electrical/mechanical installations, not really designed for solar installations but at one time I guess was a cheap alternative.
@@DumbGrunt0311 Thanks so much for the detail. I will definitely consider iron ridge when I build mine. btw did you consider snap-n-rack?
@@mkmac9539 no I didn't, never heard of it but I will check it out.
guess he has deep pockets.
@@rondefly not real deep but I have built a lot of things and for the little extra I paid for these rails it was a LOT less headache, quicker install and much, much nicer finished product. Thanks for watching!