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Not in Nebraska but in the Texas Triangle, thinking of getting Solar panels and was wondering about hail as well. We get hail here, but haven't seen baseball s
by filereaper 3y ago
Not in Nebraska but in the Texas Triangle, thinking of getting Solar panels and was wondering about hail as well.
We get hail here, but haven't seen baseball sized hail yet.
Anyone have any insights on this?
- hotpotamus 3y agoI've been looking at panels and one of the specs that at least some have included is a hail-strike rating.
- dredmorbius 3y agoInsurance. Risk profiling. Hail-rating. Preemptive / mitigating measures (see discussion of nets or webbing elsewhere in this thread).
- opwieurposiu 3y agoMost panels will handle up to ping-pong size no problem. Solar front-sheet glass has been pretty highly optimized over the years. In the case you do get damage, the actual panels are only about 1/4 of the total system cost. So the panels are pretty cheap to replace, assuming you picked a common size.
- mikro2nd 3y ago(speaking as someone who has just recently installed a solar installation): The panels are around 15% of the system cost (small-scale residential system, so things will likely be different for municipal/grid-scale systems -- I can't speak to those...)