Panel protection.... [RE-wrenches]

[Matt Tritt]

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Hi John,

So you have those bozos down there too? I wish I had a solution for you
(I like the land mine idea though) and if I did I could use it on a
customer's solar pumping array as well.
This system is located in a place that required the vandals to cross a
creek, climb up through a bunch of loose, sharp boulders, worm their way
through some really nasty cholla cactus and yuccas, poison oak and
rattle snakes. Once there they dislodged a fence post and bashed the
fronts of two modules and put a hole through the back of one more.

We took great pains to make this system as vandal-resistant as we
possibly could, but they still managed to make quite a mess of things.
The owner is afraid to file a claim because of how hard it was to get
coverage for his place, so now he has to save up money before he can a
afford to replace the damaged pieces. Ain't people grand?

Maybe we could solve our problem by adding clear Lexan sheets to the
module faces and white ones to the backsides. Lexan is literally
bullet-proof, but it's very pricey stuff.

Good luck!

Matt T

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From: John Veix [mailto:john at gosolar.co.nz] 
Sent: Wednesday, May 05, 2004 9:02 PM
To: RE-wrenches at topica.com
Subject: Panel protection.... [RE-wrenches]


 

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Hi all,

I've a remote local government body installation that uses 3 of BP4160H
panels for the control of a water race. The panels are mounted on top of
a small concrete building that has raised metal sides seemingly built to
military standards. Very heavy metal, indeed.

However, within a month of installation, the panels were wrecked by
vandals throwing huge rocks at the panels surface.

Although I will be installing 6mm (approx 1/4") thick polycarbonate over
the panels to protect against the rock damage, is there anything else
that can be done to avoid this happening.  Short of installing a
minefield or machine-gun nest, of course.

Any known manufacturers that make a protective surface for panels?

This is such a really good application, I don't want the local govt body
becoming discouraged by idiots destroying it. 

                    thanks in advance,                    John Veix,
Christchurch, N.Z.
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