[RE-wrenches] Roofers installing solar = creative, new installation methods

[Warren Lauzon]

We have seen a lot of the roofing companies nibbling around the edges of solar installs lately. I have only seen a couple of installs personally, and they were far from what I would call professional or reliable. Not quite as bad as your example, but in one case they had used Romex to run the wiring down to the inverter, and not in conduit.


From: Nick Soleil 
Sent: Thursday, January 27, 2011 8:11 PM
To: re-wrenches at lists.re-wrenches.org 
Subject: [RE-wrenches] Roofers installing solar = creative,new installation methods

Hi wrenches:
   Have you noticed that roofing companies have recently been trying to sell solar?  One company thought of something that I had never considered.  Listen to this neat story.
   I was servicing a job today, where a roofing company recently removed and re-installed a PV array on a 12 degree sloped roof.  The funny thing is that the roofer didn't want to penetrate his new roof, so he and the customer decided to leave the panels sitting on the composition roof without any attachments to the structure.  They didn't think it was necessary!  
    Shortly afterward, the array slid down the roof, and a MultiContact connector came unplugged.  The customer noticed that his system was not operating, and called us to the site.  


Nick Soleil
Project Manager
Advanced Alternative Energy Solutions, LLC
PO Box 657
Petaluma, CA 94953
Cell: 707-321-2937
Office: 707-789-9537
Fax: 707-769-9037 





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