It has been my experience that when the sun is low the panel is really tilted . Snow doesn't stick to a panel tilted at steep angles.
-- S/V ORYOKI Philip & Marilyn Lange AE4OV KD4JRC Currently on the hill - Beaufort NC "There's no point in making a plan if you're not going to pretend to follow it!" On Wed, 2011-12-21 at 16:55 -0500, gypsy...@aol.com wrote: > > > windso...@pipeline.com writes: > I’m not going to answer for Alan but he’d have the same issue > in Maine we have here in NY. A solar panel isn’t going to do > a lot of good covered with a few inches of snow. Plus the fact > that during the winter months the angle of the sun, even at > astronomical noon isn’t that high or that strong (if you > tilted the panel)...Steve Weinstein > Don't want to wage a war. I'm in Ohio during the winter, shrink > wrapped. Now I cannot argue YOUR snow, but my solar panel does work > all winter at apparently about 50% through the white shrink wrap, and > it is mounted flat for that period of time. The angle over the boat > for the shrink is about 30 degrees each side and the snow seems to > drop away very nicely. > Carl ...Dayton, OH > > > > _______________________________________________ > Liveaboard mailing list > Liveaboard@liveaboardonline.com > To adjust your membership settings over the web > http://liveaboardonline.com/mailman/listinfo/liveaboard > To subscribe send an email to liveaboard-j...@liveaboardonline.com > > To unsubscribe send an email to liveaboard-le...@liveaboardonline.com > The archives are at http://www.liveaboardonline.com/pipermail/liveaboard/ > > To search the archives > http://www.mail-archive.com/liveaboard@liveaboardnow.org > > The Mailman Users Guide can be found here > http://www.gnu.org/software/mailman/mailman-member/index.html
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