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The solar panels in my roof shed snow way faster than the shingles do. I suspect it's a combo of the angle plus them being slick glass rather than rough asphalt
by ashtonkem 6y ago
The solar panels in my roof shed snow way faster than the shingles do. I suspect it's a combo of the angle plus them being slick glass rather than rough asphalt paper.
Maybe they're warmed too, I've never actually touched them.
- 8note 6y agoIf they're still producing any power, they'll have some self heating just through waste. I'm fairly certain that solar panels catch some power off of infrared and the like, so they should still be getting a little bit warm. Snow is a great insulator, so that heat has nowhere to go but melt base layer of snow off. After that I imagine it's like a glacier, slipping on a small layer of water