Hey Phil, READ it all again. I said that was the angle of the shrink wrap to drop the snow off. , phi...@oryoki.net writes:
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 "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
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