Expose wiring on the roof

[onlineshopper858]

Hi,

I recently had a leak in the house and had to get my solar panels removed and reinstalled. Now I see that the wires are exposed on the roof. Is this fine and expected in an install?

https://ibb.co/jm5dNH

Thank you,

[Mike90250]

The wires may have been left on the roof (i don't click on obfuscated, short links) and would be laced back into the support frames after panels are reinstalled. I would worry if the MC4 connectors are exposed to the damp night air, the interior is not weather rated, the O rings are supposed to provide protection. There are not supposed to be loose wires on the roof after all is put back.

[onlineshopper858]

The wires may have been left on the roof (i don't click on obfuscated, short links) and would be laced back into the support frames after panels are reinstalled. I would worry if the MC4 connectors are exposed to the damp night air, the interior is not weather rated, the O rings are supposed to provide protection. There are not supposed to be loose wires on the roof after all is put back.

Here's the picture of the roof, I don't know why I couldn't upload it before.

[solarix]

That wiring is technically code, but is pretty lame workmanship. PV rated wire (or it could be the previously type USE-2 wire) has the best, toughest insulation there is - and is rated for exposed use on roofs, but my practice is to never allow it continuous exposure to the sun. How hard would it have been to run a little piece of conduit from the j-box over under the array? Kinda tells you something about your installer...

[J.P.M.]

Who un/reinstalled the array ? If it was the PV installer, I'd take him/her to task.

If the in/reinstall was done by the folks who found/repaired the leak,I'm not surprised. Roofers are not usually considered good PV installers/service personnel. If so, that probably ought to be on your nickel.

[onlineshopper858]

Well the company is a roofing/solar company so the person doing the Solar part from what I can tell does it primarily. They had separate groups that came out, one for Solar and one to do the roofing. Is it too much to ask them to do the conduit from the j-box over under the array? I'm not really a picky person but just don't want several years down the road and the PV is rotted away. Now if that PV will last years in the Sun and this is standard practice I might be ok with it or better yet is this worth making it an issue?

Thanks!

[littleharbor]

It looks like piss poor wire management practices here. Even if the wire exposed is PV wire it is just hanging loose and could, in time, chafe through the insulation on those concrete tiles.Whomever replaced the array sure doesn't seem to care enough to even zip tie the wires together.

[onlineshopper858]

Sounds like I need to bring this up. Thanks!

[J.P.M.]

Well the company is a roofing/solar company so the person doing the Solar part from what I can tell does it primarily. They had separate groups that came out, one for Solar and one to do the roofing.

Might be a suggestion that the two groups talk to one another 1X/awhile.