Inspections. There are three inspections. When scheduling the inspections, thou shalt count to three, no more, no less. Three shall be the number thou shalt count, and the number of the counting shall be three. Four shalt thou not count, neither count thou two, excepting that thou then proceedest on to three. Five is right [...]
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PV system technical specs
I know there are a few technical readers out there who might be interested in this stuff. For the rest of you, browse through some old posts, some of them are quite entertaining.
The PV system sizing is based on a few ground facts, as we used to call them. First, the current usage of the [...]
Installing our Photovoltaic system, part IV
Now for the fun part, the frame is all done. The frame is pressure treated 4×4 post and beam style. The rafters are pressure treated 2 x 10 x 12 feet. Over all, it came out pretty nice. Next year I intend to replace the front deck with a covered porch, also post and beam [...]
Installing our Photovoltaic system, part III
Constructing the mounting frame. I had my one “oops” moment in the project already, hopefully there will not be another one. It seems that when I laid out the position of the mounting frame, I was a little too close to the property line. In the end of October, the town that [...]
Installing our Photovoltiac system, Part II
Laying out the support frame. As mentioned before, the south facing roof on our house is taken up with the solar hot water system. The only mounting option for the photovoltaic system was to build a sun shade type support frame in the yard.
The first thing that was needed was the size of the array. [...]
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