AS Solar's DIY Solar Panel Installation, Part 5: It's time for the panels!
Part 5 - Watch a solar expert from AS Solar demonstrate how to install a Do It Yourself (DIY) solar panel kit. With this easy to follow guide, you can now easily install a roof solar panel system in your home!
Here in Part 5 it's time to mount the panels. We start by showing you how to assemble the panel clamps and roughly position them. After that we connect the panel's wiring to the micro-inverters we installed in Part 4. Up goes the first panel, finger-tightened, and then the second panel. We don't show the final torquing down of the panel clamps - every panel manufacturer has a different number so we didn't want to pick a single one.
This section doesn't show the WEEBs under the panels, so here's the scoop:
Every panel has to have at least one WEEB. This is easy enough if you install them in a zig-zag pattern. So start with a WEEB on one of the end clamps, say the top at one end of the rail.
Now put another on the bottom mid clamp on the other side of that same panel, between the panel on the end and the second one in.
Now put another WEEB on the top mid clamp on the other side of the second panel, between it and the 3rd panel. Then the lower between the 3rd and 4th, and so on.
This ensures not only that every panel has at least one WEEB even if you remove the panel beside it, but it also grounds the two rails together through the panel frames.
We don't show the final grounding or how to wire the system into the AC power grid. These are both tasks for a licensed electrician.
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Very informative! I feel empowered! Thanks!
great solar there mate... thank you for sharing thid DIY!
Great Practical Video... Thanks . I shall now try myself!
Thanks for posting. Great stuff.
Thanks for the videos
i appreciated this video, i need the name for each part used for installation please...
Nice explinationa and work, I need to get a quotation from you
I made it. I used inplix scripts for that. It was pretty easy to make it
Can you put the clamps on the edges that are further apart rather than the close edges? I'd like to put up an array with 3 rows that are portrait (12 panels each) and 1 row that is landscape. I can fit more panels that way. For obvious reasons, I would rather run two long rails for the landscape row that are parallel to the rails for the portrait rows, but that would require clamping on the ends of the panels that are further apart for that one row, and I'm not sure if they are strong enough for that. Still 4 clamps per panel, obviously. If it matters, this is not a high wind area.
With plans from Avasva you can make it really easy.
would it be ok to weather proof the connections from the micro converter to the panel?
On inplix page are instructions if you want to learn how to build it yourself just take them
work goes much faster with Avasva plans.
If you don't know how to make it by yourself , just go to inplix website.
IF you want to make it by yourself just go to InpliX page.