August 20, 20223 yr Here in Zimbabwe, I would safely say the winter is past us now, but the next challenge is how do we protect our solar panels from: 1. Excess heat - which is coming this summer; and 2. It's likely we may have have hail at some point (touch-wood, we don't) Heat and panels are not friends, nor hailstorms.
August 20, 20223 yr Best solution for both those problems is to take them off and store them somewhere.
August 20, 20223 yr 51 minutes ago, Moffat said: Heat and panels are not friends, nor hailstorms. Heat shouldn't be a problem, unless you have your barbecue underneath your solar panels... as for hail, unless you have *LARGE* hail stones, like golf ball size or larger, I'd think it shouldn't be a huge issue either, but, if you do have larger hail stones, maybe come up with a plan to put a frame with shade netting that you can put up temporarily over your solar panels whilst its hailing... some large air gap between the shade net and the solar panels, so it acts like a trampoline and prevents the hail from even touching the panel...
August 20, 20223 yr 15 minutes ago, Kalahari Meerkat said: Heat shouldn't be a problem, unless you have your barbecue underneath your solar panels... as for hail, unless you have *LARGE* hail stones, like golf ball size or larger, I'd think it shouldn't be a huge issue either, but, if you do have larger hail stones, maybe come up with a plan to put a frame with shade netting that you can put up temporarily over your solar panels whilst its hailing... some large air gap between the shade net and the solar panels, so it acts like a trampoline and prevents the hail from even touching the panel... In place of shade cloth use chicken wire mesh which could stay there permanently and would not impair the operation in sun light much, just a thought
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