Avalanche!
Last week, it snowed a lot. A trace the previous Friday. 2.5 inches on Monday morning. Then 3 inches on Friday morning followed by rain. We’ve gone over a week with no solar production because every panel is at least partially blocked by snow.
Sunday, I was sitting in my home office on the 2nd floor working. Suddenly I hear a LOUD scraping sound from the roof. I ran downstairs to find out what happened.
The snow that had been completely covering the bottom row (of 3) of panels let loose all at once. It fell from the roof to the ground.
Later I discovered that the snowfall took out most of our Christmas lights on the bushes. They were torn off of the bushes and buried under 3-8 inches of snow. One string was permanently ruined because of a wire pulled out of one of the plastic sockets. We replaced it with a smaller unused string. We’ve also left the whole thing unplugged last night and today so that the sockets can dry out.
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This didn’t happen last year – even in the 10-inch storms. Of course, those were drier storms and the snow tended to blow off the panels. I guess it took a small, very wet snow to cause this.
I’m still a bit nervous – the snow on the top 2 levels was still there last night. Of course, it was only covering 50% of some of the panels and very little of the rest.
At least we’ll get some power today.
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2 Comments on Avalanche!
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Nelson on
Tue, 28th Feb 2006 1:51 pm
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Walt on
Mon, 22nd Jan 2007 12:54 am
Have you taken into account how often and how you will clean the panels?
Hello,
I am looking at installing solar and I found your blog. I see it has been dormant for quite some time. I guess there’s not much left to tell 🙂
Is the system still functioning to your expectations? Are billing problems straightened out?
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