Avalanche!

December 12, 2005 by · 2 Comments
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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.

Snow, part 2

January 28, 2005 by · Leave a Comment
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Yesterday was the first day since the big snow last weekend where the inverters ever woke up.  The snow melted off the panels on Wednesday when the temperature finally climbed over 32F, and on Thursday we got some power.

Interestingly, the inverter with the smaller number of panels had the bigger day, due to the fact that some panels on the other inverter were still partially snow-covered.
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It was still 1/2 of what we should have gotten on a similar day with no snow on the panels, but at least we got something.  Tomorrow, the temps are supposed to go above freezing again and the last snow should melt.  (Today’s low was 4F!)

Snow

January 24, 2005 by · Leave a Comment
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One of the questions that we’ve had about solar panels was:  “What happens when it snows?”

We learned the answer yesterday.  We got 15 inches of snow between 10am Saturday and 10am Sunday.  The inverters produced nothing on Saturday (not a surprise – the sun was hard to see).  On Sunday, the panels were 90% covered with an inch to 4 inches of snow (guestimated from the ground).  We got nothing.
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Today, the skies are brighter but it’s STILL cold (it was 5 degrees F at 7am this morning), so I don’t expect the panels to be uncovered today.  Tomorrow is supposed to be sunny and above freezing.