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I wonder to what extent we can make it unskilled, at least for a building with modern wiring. Plug-and-play solar panels and batteries sound scary, but not nece
by BobaFloutist 2y ago
I wonder to what extent we can make it unskilled, at least for a building with modern wiring. Plug-and-play solar panels and batteries sound scary, but not necessarily impossible to do safely.
- wongarsu 2y agoAnything involving roofs is difficult to do unskilled (at scale). You are working at height, potentially on a sloped surface, and have to worry about keeping the roof water tight. But if you put the panels basically anywhere else it becomes a lot more viable. Some houses come with a plug to connect your generator, you can do something similar to plug in your inverter. Then you can later decide to put up a solar fence or put solar panels on the balcony or whatever strikes your fancy
- jeffbee 2y agoWhy not just prefab a frame with the panels mounted and hang it on the point of the roof with a crane? Working on the roof can be eliminated or minimized.
- happyopossum 2y agoWind. Panels and their support need to be anchored to the roof, lest they become flying solar panels.
- ssl-3 2y agoEven if it works, that just trades some of the working-on-a-roof trade skills for (much more expensive) crane operator and rigging skills, while also adding the expense of the crane itself.
- red_trumpet 2y ago> Plug-and-play solar panels [...] sound scary But they already exist and are pretty popular in Germany to put on your balcony.
- Diederich 2y agoNeat, do you have a quick reference handy? Thanks!
- dzhiurgis 2y agoIt's pretty high voltage (500V DC) - you start to get arcing at this voltage.