[RE-wrenches] Hailstorm damage

[Glenn Burt]

All of which begs the question, has anyone successfully gotten a warranty claim for the damage if it would seem that the damage was inflicted to a lesser degree than product testing seems to indicate?

Sincerely,
Glenn Burt
Sent from my 'smart' phone so please excuse grammar and typos.

-----Original Message-----
From: "Jerry Shafer" <jerrysgarage01 at gmail.com>
Sent: ‎10/‎9/‎2015 15:47
To: "RE-wrenches" <re-wrenches at lists.re-wrenches.org>
Subject: Re: [RE-wrenches] Hailstorm damage

Wrenches
We have modules next to a driving range at a golf course and we find golf
balls around the arrays regularly and do find broken modules from time to
time
Jerry
On Oct 9, 2015 4:52 AM, "Jason Szumlanski" <
jason at floridasolardesigngroup.com> wrote:

> Not to hijack the thread, but the timing is perfect for another related
> question I had. A client approached me about putting solar panels on a golf
> course maintenance building. The pitch is 2 in 12 and the location is
> supposedly not in the typical direction/are where golf balls are likely to
> be hit (most likely because I don't have a membership there). The question
> will naturally come up about golf ball strikes. We have several systems
> along fairways on residences and have not had any reported issues. Does
> anyone else have systems in the cross-hairs of errant golf balls? If so,
> any feedback on resistance to strikes?
>
> ​Jason Szumlanski​
> ​​Florida Solar Design Group​
>
>
> On Fri, Oct 9, 2015 at 1:47 AM, Allan Sindelar <allan at sindelarsolar.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Wrenches,
>> From time to time I see posts about hail damage. The message below was
>> sent internally among Positive Energy's three offices, and I thought worth
>> sharing here.
>> Allan, Sindelar Solar
>>
>> -------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: Big hailstorm in LC Date: Tue,
>> 6 Oct 2015 08:04:14 -0600
>> Hi all,
>> We had a big hail storm in Las Cruces on Saturday.  Because so many
>> potential clients ask about how solar panels hold up to hail, I thought
>> that I would share a bit of what we found.
>>
>> The hail that was falling was about golf ball sized.  I have seen a
>> picture of a hailstone next to a tape measure that was about an inch and a
>> half in diameter.  On the install that we started yesterday, all of the
>> customer's skylights (about 6) were busted out; not just cracked, but with
>> big holes punched through them.  Several of our clients called to tell us
>> that their skylights were destroyed, but their solar panels were
>> undamaged.  We went up onto roofs for four of our clients that are out of
>> town and found no damage to the PV arrays.
>>
>> We have only one report of a damaged panel, which you can see in the
>> attached photos.  This was a unique installation, because the modules are
>> mounted flat on a nominally flat roof, so they have about two degrees of
>> pitch.  That means that the hailstones hit almost perpendicular, so with
>> more force.  Even at this installation, only one 1 out of 15 modules was
>> damaged.  This is a Suntech module.
>>
>> All in all, our modules fared well.  To my knowledge, this is only the
>> second time that a module installed by Positive Energy has been damaged by
>> hail.  The first time was in Taos a few years ago.
>> Cheers,
>> Westbrock
>>
>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>> Date: Mon, Oct 5, 2015 at 7:19 PM
>> Subject: Broken Panel
>>
>> Here is what the panel looks like! It is just like safety glass, the
>> entire panel is shattered.
>> Bob
>>
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