Greetings everyone Newbie here.
I'm going to be mounting 9) 77x39 Canidian solar panels in an area that is 24' 3'' wide by 12' high. Regarding the width, my local building code requires an 18" buffer zone on both sides and the bottom. Unless my math is wrong the best I can do is 9 panels of this size mounted in landscape orientation.
The grid will be three panels across and three panels high.
The question: Canidian solar (according to their installation sheet) has the mounting anchoring the panels to the rails on the longest edges 4" in from the sides.
Instead of that configuration, I'm anticipating installing the rails vertical (perpendicular to the 77 in side and anchoring the panels across the narrow side. I've seen a number of installation done that way but was un-sure if the building inspector in North Smithfield RI will go for that?
Also, I'm in a heavy snow area so I was also thinking of adding a 3rd rail in between the two 'main' rails so the panels would have mount points each instead of 4.
Comments would be most welcome - thanks in advance.
Jan
I'm going to be mounting 9) 77x39 Canidian solar panels in an area that is 24' 3'' wide by 12' high. Regarding the width, my local building code requires an 18" buffer zone on both sides and the bottom. Unless my math is wrong the best I can do is 9 panels of this size mounted in landscape orientation.
The grid will be three panels across and three panels high.
The question: Canidian solar (according to their installation sheet) has the mounting anchoring the panels to the rails on the longest edges 4" in from the sides.
Instead of that configuration, I'm anticipating installing the rails vertical (perpendicular to the 77 in side and anchoring the panels across the narrow side. I've seen a number of installation done that way but was un-sure if the building inspector in North Smithfield RI will go for that?
Also, I'm in a heavy snow area so I was also thinking of adding a 3rd rail in between the two 'main' rails so the panels would have mount points each instead of 4.
Comments would be most welcome - thanks in advance.
Jan
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