How long can I leave my Solar Panels?

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Stemar

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I've just installed my two 80W panels - created a frame, run the wires, etc., but I ran out of time to fit and connect the controller. Tomorrow we've an amber wind warning - 55kt gusts, pissing with rain all weekend, then I start jury service.

How long can I leave the panels in the sun - if and when we get any? Do I need to go and finish it the job tomorrow, or can it wait until I've sent some poor bugger to jail or not, as the case may be?
 
Go and fix it tomorrow, you know you want to :)

Shouldnt make any difference, I have a switch on the panel side of my controller which is turned off for a couple of weeks at a time
 
Stemar said:
I've just installed my two 80W panels - created a frame, run the wires, etc., but I ran out of time to fit and connect the controller. Tomorrow we've an amber wind warning - 55kt gusts, pissing with rain all weekend, then I start jury service.

How long can I leave the panels in the sun - if and when we get any? Do I need to go and finish it the job tomorrow, or can it wait until I've sent some poor bugger to jail or not, as the case may be?
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It’s no problem to leave them open circuit. I’d worry more about the wind getting them.
 
Thanks everyone. It's now a red warning, I think It'd be prudent to stay home, so good to know the panels won't suffer.

I'm not too worried about Jazzcat as she's hunkered down on some solid timber, just hope the others in the yard hang in there, but we should be ok - it's pretty sheltered from the SW.

Best of luck surviving Eunice. She sounds like a nasty piece of work!
 
Concerning your jury service, I come from chaotic upbringing and didn’t know I was speeding, and it was a medical emergency. Everyone else was going the same speed anyway, and I was late for work as well as needing to use the bathroom, and being late for an interview, and late to pick up OR drop my child off in a place where I didn't see the sign before being late for a court appointment, after which I'd a doctor appointment.
I was also bringing home hot food and didn't want it to get cold as well as being late to meet my wife at a funeral for our disabled son's guide dog.
Just in case you happen to notice an elderly bearded guy before the court, I hope that the above will be taken into consideration, pal.
 
jamie N said:
Concerning your jury service, I come from chaotic upbringing and didn’t know I was speeding, and it was a medical emergency. Everyone else was going the same speed anyway, and I was late for work as well as needing to use the bathroom, and being late for an interview, and late to pick up OR drop my child off in a place where I didn't see the sign before being late for a court appointment, after which I'd a doctor appointment.
I was also bringing home hot food and didn't want it to get cold as well as being late to meet my wife at a funeral for our disabled son's guide dog.
Just in case you happen to notice an elderly bearded guy before the court, I hope that the above will be taken into consideration, pal.
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Guilty as charged. Hang him, Your Honour! :ROFLMAO:

I survived, the boat survived - I even survived finishing the wiring in the rain yesterday. I'll be fine, the wiring is inside. Yes, but the batteries are in a cockpit locker and connecting them up involved kneeling on a wet deck, head down in said locker as the rain chose that moment to go from a bit of drizzle to, as the French put it, ""comme vache qui pisse" Anyway, they're now working.

Unfortunately, a club member's boat didn't. She went walkabout and sank over near the car ferry port. AFAIK, that was the only casualty at Hardway.
 
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