<font face="georgia" size="3"><p style="margin:0;padding:0;font-family: georgia; font-size: 12pt; overflow-wrap: break-word;">Michael and I have noticed this kind of damage tends to be more common on shallow angled roofs. Less than 6/12 is for sure designed to fail.</p>
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<p style="margin:0;padding:0;font-family: georgia; font-size: 12pt; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><img src="cid:img-0.jpg@1566870153.1362" alt=""><br /><br />On Monday, August 26, 2019 2:46pm, "Michael Morningstar" <mjmorningstar@gmail.com> said:<br /><br /></p>
<div id="SafeStyles1566869788">Todd Cory and I have seen this many times. Around here, I won\u2019t let the bottom edge of an array be less than 7\u2019 off the ground. The one time I relented to a customers wishes and placed a 1200w pole top array with the bottom edge 5\u2019 above grade, the bottom modules were destroyed in an 06\u2019 snowstorm.
<div class="">I actually compiled a portfolio and case study of a dozen and a half snow damaged arrays from this area to present to Wholesale Solar, who was and still continues to sell ground mounts around here. I lost the pictures shortly afterwards but I bet Todd still has some.</div>
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<div class="">On Aug 26, 2019, at 2:41 PM, frenergy <<a class="" href="mailto:frenergy@psln.com">frenergy@psln.com</a>> wrote:</div>
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<p class="" style="margin:0;padding:0;font-family: georgia; font-size: 12pt; overflow-wrap: break-word;">I've got a customer that is pushing me to lower the bottom edge of a multipole rack array to make it less visible from his house (which is .6 miles away!). Its 4 PVs in landscape, I currently have it designed with the lower edge at 3.5 feet off the ground which is actually questionable with the 2-3 feet of snow we get here sometimes. Flat ground, 25 degree pitch.</p>
<p class="" style="margin:0;padding:0;font-family: georgia; font-size: 12pt; overflow-wrap: break-word;"> If anybody has pics (or words of wisdom) of the bottom edge of a PV frame being ripped of due to snow not being able to shed properly from <em class="">this </em><em class="">type of installation (or pole mount would help)</em>, I would appreciate the help.</p>
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Bill Battagin, Owner
4291 Nelson St.
Taylorsville, CA 95983
530.284.7849
CA Lic 874049
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="http://www.frenergy.net/">www.frenergy.net</a></pre>
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