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I’ve never tried it but just heard about these people. From the bio they are the original makers of rain X, but they customized a product, several of them, to clean Pv panels and they also mentioned it can help to shed rain and snow.</div>
<div>By the way, Rainx is not  approved for such an application.</div>
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<div class="gmail_attr" dir="ltr">On Thu, Dec 5, 2024 at 2:19 PM Howie Michaelson via RE-wrenches <<a href="mailto:re-wrenches@lists.re-wrenches.org">re-wrenches@lists.re-wrenches.org</a>> wrote:</div>
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<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family: verdana,sans-serif;">Has anyone successfully used heat panels or cables to melt iced-over panels (ie. without damaging the panels)? In heavy snow country, or over periods of freeze/thaw when pelty slushy snow sticks and freezes to panels, it would be nice to have a safe method of clearing them, especially off-grid.  I remember discussions of the futility of backfeeding panels to heat them up to accomplish the same, but not about heat tape or pans that might be worth trying.</div>
<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family: verdana,sans-serif;">Thanks,</div>
Howie Michaelson</div>
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