Thanks Ron. This installation would be at a non-farm site in Princeton NJ, so the only larger animals that would be around the array would be deer hopefully. Actually, I guess a few bears run around the suburbs of NJ sometimes (as profiled on the Sopranos) but I don't think they'll be much of a concern.
Regards, David From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Ron Young Sent: Friday, January 09, 2009 3:13 AM To: RE-wrenches Subject: Re: [RE-wrenches] Wildlife issues with ground mounts I install almost exclusively pole mount systems and because wildlife (deer, bear, moose) and livestock (cows, sheep, goats, horses) are common influences the bottom edge of the array is usually above 6'. This makes for some pretty high poles on larger arrays. I strongly discourage ground mounts in my area. Roof mounts, because of snow, are also a bad idea for most applications in my part of the world. Last winter I had to replace a combiner box that got ripped off a pole mount by a horse running in a most unexpected location. It ripped a j-box off the back of one of the modules along with it. Luckily for the owner it was fixable and the panel didn't have to be replaced. Ron Young earthRight Solar - Solareagle On 8-Jan-09, at 4:19 PM, David Buckner wrote: I'm curious to hear any horror stories (or simple nuisances) relating to open field ground mounted arrays involving wildlife. Either wildlife or array being damaged by the other. The only hassles we've had have been the occasional squirrel under flush mounted rooftop arrays. We've had a few ground mounted arrays up and running for over 5 years and I've never seen any issues. We are now getting ready to install another ground mount (NJ location), and the customer has asked the question. Regards, David -- David Buckner President Solar Energy Systems, LLC. 1205 Manhattan Avenue Suite 1210 Brooklyn, NY 11222-1058 ph 718-389-1545 (ext 11) fx 718-389-2820 e [email protected] _______________________________________________ List sponsored by Home Power magazine List Address: [email protected] Options & settings: http://lists.re-wrenches.org/options.cgi/re-wrenches-re-wrenches.org List-Archive: http://lists.re-wrenches.org/pipermail/re-wrenches-re-wrenches.org List rules & etiquette: www.re-wrenches.org/etiquette.htm Check out participant bios: www.members.re-wrenches.org
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