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--- opinion:frater_secessus:beginner_mistakes [2025/06/02 00:15]
frater_secessus [making helpers guess]
+++ opinion:frater_secessus:beginner_mistakes [2025/06/21 16:49] (current)
frater_secessus [mounting or deploying panels where they will be shaded]
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 Rule of thumb:  nothing on the vehicle should be taller than the surface of the solar panels
+Unforced errors include mounting the panels
+  * on a rack that has ladder retention uprights
+  * on a rack that has raised sides
+  * on the bottom of a roof basket
+  * below a roof basket (!!!)
+  * near taller objects like vent hoods, antennas, cargo boxes, awning mounts, etc
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 Be realistic:  if you are a person whose phone battery and gas tank is perpetually below 1/4 you probably won't set the panels out often enough or for long enough to derive much benefit.  This is not a moral judgement -- it just means you need to focus on mounted panel or increasing yield from the alternator.
-==== shade ====
-[[electrical:solar:shading|Shade]] will wreck solar harvest.  Beginners often don't pay attention to shade conditions, including shade thrown by objects on the van roof or the rack itself.
-Unforced errors include mounting the panels
-  * on a rack that has ladder retention uprights
-  * on a rack that has raised sides
-  * on the bottom of a roof basket
-  * below a roof basket (!!!)
-  * near taller objects like vent hoods, antennas, cargo boxes, awning mounts, etc

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