Solar Quote opinions

savdefriz

The roof that it would fit on is the eves of the house so the shape is an isosceles triangle. Same on the garage. The base is the longer lengths, and the apex is the length from bottom to top. Had a clinometer on there to work out the pitch.

Does that make more sense?

tunnel

I must be having a blond moment(even though I'm a shaven headed bloke) cos that totally confuses me. Just a simple length X width of the house would suffice...please

ed110220

savdefriz wrote: »

The roof that it would fit on is the eves of the house so the shape is an isosceles triangle. Same on the garage. The base is the longer lengths, and the apex is the length from bottom to top. Had a clinometer on there to work out the pitch.

Does that make more sense?

Not really! Assuming the roof is a simple pitch, what is the length (along the gutter) and the height (from gutter to ridge)?



Ed

savdefriz

savdefriz wrote: »

The house roof would be roughly 9.5m wide with a pitch of about 40 degrees. Not sure exactly how high it is to the apex of the triangle but I would think somewhere between 6.5 to 8m

The garage roof is about 20 degrees pitch, about 7.5m wide and about 4.5 m to the top of the apex.

The quote I have came from a company from Solargen who I have to be honest have been very informative in all of their e-mails.

The panels would be facing 10degrees from south and I am way up here in West Cumbria.

Niether roof has any shading.

Thanks again

SDF

House 9.5 wide about 7.5 tall
Garage 7.5 wide about 5 tall

But triangles so half the area....

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hip_roof#/media/File:Chicago_bungalow.jpg

That sort of shape...

Cheers

SDF

tunnel

savdefriz wrote: »

House 9.5 wide about 7.5 tall
Garage 7.5 wide about 5 tall

But triangles so half the area....

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hip_roof#/media/File:Chicago_bungalow.jpg

That sort of shape...

Cheers

SDF

Hi SDF
So from the gutter to the point is about 6.5m-8m for the house and about 5m for the garage, am I reading that right? Is the garage detached or attached to the house too?

savdefriz

Yes you are reading it right.

The garage is detached from the house by about 3 meters and has it's own consumer unit.

SDF

tunnel

savdefriz wrote: »

Yes you are reading it right.

The garage is detached from the house by about 3 meters and has it's own consumer unit.

SDF

That would make it quite difficult for a dual MPPT(2 string inverter), how is the garage wired to the house, above ground(via a catenary wire) or below?

savdefriz

It's below ground.

I would expect that the wire would go under the block paved drive if we take some of the blocks up!!!

tunnel

Ok, was hoping above ground to utilise the garage from 1 inverter(difficult to add a string threading underground). As is, from your dimensions, depending on whether its 6.5m or 8m to the ridge then you should be ok for either 12 or 14 panels on the house roof. Best get someone(a local installer) to measure up exactly, then go from there.