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<div>In light of Hurricane Matthew and the loss of some of our PV systems on South Coast of Haiti (despite being designed for 120 - 150mph winds), I’d be interested to hear of any strategies being used for making hurricane-resistant solar arrays. The maximum
wind speed that most commercially available racking systems seem to provide is 130 – 150mph, but in many cases it seems the racking survives okay anyway while the glass is blown right out of the module frames. </div>
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<div>Are there any modules rated for higher than 2400 Pascals of wind loading (which seems to be the norm)? I recall seeing a Mitsubishi module a few years back that had an additional frame member running across the back of the module. Would that provide extra
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<div>Would using small solar modules with less surface area be a useful strategy? (We typically use standard 60-cell modules.)</div>
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<div>Can some sort of wind break or shield be designed into the frame to take the wind load off the solar modules themselves? (Many of our systems are on tilt-frames on flat concrete roofs so that back of the array is exposed.)</div>
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<div>Any thoughts/advice/experience in this area would be much appreciated. Thanks. </div>
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