[MassHistPres] solar panels in historic districts

[james hadley]

You can find a guide to wiring solar shingles here - http://www.solarshingleabcs.com/installation.html
They do indeed require a wire and penetration for each shingle, according to this guide.
James Hadley AIA
Chair, Orleans Historical Society
 

> Date: Fri, 2 Sep 2011 14:32:09 -0400
> From: willa at keyfitz.org
> To: jdianeol at aol.com
> CC: masshistpres at cs.umb.edu
> Subject: Re: [MassHistPres] solar panels in historic districts
> 
> On Fri, 2 Sep 2011, jdianeol at aol.com wrote:
> 
> > Although I have not worked with them, I believe you have an incorrect 
> > understanding of how photovoltaic shingles are wired.
> 
> Entirely possible. I'm going on what I was told a few years ago by a 
> NABCEP-certified solar installer, and have never worked with them myself. 
> Even if each wire does not penetrate the roof, I would still want to know 
> more about how they are connected, because eventually some of the shingles 
> are going to fail either as solar panels or as shingles, and individual 
> replacement sounds tricky with all those wires running behind them. But 
> again, my information is secondhand and a couple of years out of date.
> 
> -Willa
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