Simplifying assumptions and models are a good thing, but as you realize they are not a replacement for but are a compliment to the more full up models. In my experience from working on variety of engineering programs including very complex ones, your need both.
A common theme you will see echoed here is "how much is it really worth trying to optimize a configuration". This is an important question when you consider roof mounted systems as anything that is oblique in two dimensions (with represent to the roof) makes the mounting more complicated and as another poster has found out most installer just don't want to deal with it. There are many easier jobs to deal with that will go up much easier.
Having said that there are challenges of engineering to get an arbitrary mounting system to work and certified or stamped that is beyond the standardized (i.e. cookie cutter) mounts that are so widely used and have already gone through engineering reviews.
I think the original question of how to relate one optimal panel mount to another is simple and straight forward as I described. How easy or feasible it is to mount at those angles is a different matter. Bear in mind that your original impudence seemed to be aesthetics and so in none of the analysis you have see to date has used that value to justify the associated costs.
A common theme you will see echoed here is "how much is it really worth trying to optimize a configuration". This is an important question when you consider roof mounted systems as anything that is oblique in two dimensions (with represent to the roof) makes the mounting more complicated and as another poster has found out most installer just don't want to deal with it. There are many easier jobs to deal with that will go up much easier.
Having said that there are challenges of engineering to get an arbitrary mounting system to work and certified or stamped that is beyond the standardized (i.e. cookie cutter) mounts that are so widely used and have already gone through engineering reviews.
I think the original question of how to relate one optimal panel mount to another is simple and straight forward as I described. How easy or feasible it is to mount at those angles is a different matter. Bear in mind that your original impudence seemed to be aesthetics and so in none of the analysis you have see to date has used that value to justify the associated costs.
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