So most people, if adding a detached garage, would make the roof layout the same as the house it sits next to, right?  But when we added ours a few years ago, i put the roof about 90 degrees off from the house.  But why, u ask?  So one side of the roof faces almost due south (about 10 degrees off from due south).  Who would do that?  Someone who has been interested in all things solar for like 30 years.  Then i got in contact with a solar salesman, who my son used to work with, so i know he is a reputable human.

So when Chris came over we went through the info that he would usually present in 3 meetings, in one sitting.  Chris went to work for this particular solar company after he took the time to research solar for himself and install panels at his home.  So i was pretty confident in things right off the bat.

First the aluminum rails are attached to the roof, lagged into the trusses.  The silver boxes are ‘micro inverters’, each panel puts out DC and it’s converted to AC by its own inverter.  This has 2 advantages.  1 – It allows AC to be sent off the roof and direct into our power system.  2 – If any panel or inverter stops working for any reason, the rest will still function.

The last pic is a shot of one day’s production.  Each micro inverter talks and is connected to the internet.  I have access to view the power made and each day the sun shines the software makes a nice bar graph.  When its ‘sunny sunshine’ all day it looks like the nice bell curve you see here.  So last Saturday, 4/21/18 our system produced 39.1 KWH (Kilowatt Hours).  Almost a record!  The record for my system happened on Monday, May 9, 2016 – 39.8 KWH.  It was fairly easy to look back with the software and find the record.

If anyone is considering a Solar Panel array for their property feel free to contact me for any questions you may have.  I love to chat solar.  (Disclaimer, if you buy a system from the people who put mine in, i get a finders fee)