extends to Tesla’s energy business.
Also more competitors in this market space now.
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Good read, good to see, I passed it along to my BIL as they are getting ready to reroof, add solar & some sort of poerwall as a pretty big project, so at least now he will take a look at alternatives…
Personally it hasn’t seemed our electric bills are enough to justify solar, just added a new roof a couple years back, hate the thought of poking holes in it, plus the installers tromping all over it… So we wait, watch…
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I have a cedar shake roof, so solar is disallowed by code (electricity + warm cables + wood) but we did add four large awnings which required “poking holes” in the roof to add a structure to attach the awning mechanics to.
I used some like this:
Mine were abut twice the size, and instead of two screws had one huge lag screw that went down into the rafter. You drilled the hole, filled it with caulk, then slid the aluminum panel up under the course of shingles, and drove the lag. Put in about 16 myself several years ago, not a problem.
Not a great pic, but I’m not going to drag out the ladder to get one better:
I don’t think most solar installs use this sort of thing, but just so you know it’s possible, and easy, actually. The hardest trick was finding the stud down below a layers of shingles & sunroof.
PS: I have a modest amount of solar, flew them off the edge of the deck, and capture it in some Anker f3800 batteries before using it to recharge the EV.
[Edit to add]
I think this is it. Plate in 8x12
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Aha, looks like a good way to go… We used to have wood shingles, but after a neighbor nearly set my roof afire one 4th of July, bottle rockets, we jumped on composition when the time came…
Hopefully my BIL finds a decent contractor, he’s a retired geologist/architect, so is pretty savvy, but like many architects, maybe not so practical at times, I argued for years over my adding an exit door off our master bedroom, I won in the end, didn’t like being down a hall with no easy exit in case of fire…
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