[RE-wrenches] Wildlife issues with ground mounts

[David Buckner]

And you don’t bring food to any return maintenance visits?!?!

 

Thank you Jeff.

 

David

 

 

From: re-wrenches-bounces at lists.re-wrenches.org [mailto:re-wrenches-bounces at lists.re-wrenches.org] On Behalf Of Jeff Yago
Sent: Friday, January 09, 2009 1:08 AM
To: RE-wrenches
Subject: Re: [RE-wrenches] Wildlife issues with ground mounts

 

We did a pole mount system several years ago for an off-grid home we also designed earlier that had a rooftop array.   The pole mount system was an add to expand the existing solar capacity.  The pole was the "normal" height that should have been used, but because the ground was so steep then flatten out right at the location which allowed a lower corner to be closer to the ground.  There was problems with black bear scratching themselves on the array corner.  The tilt was changed to get the array higher off the ground.  Since the system was in a remote part of Idaho, bears are not uncommon in the area.

 

After that we now check the average height the local bears can reach before designing a pole mounted array system in a remote area!

 

Jeff Yago


 

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