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Mildly Infuriating @lemmy.world

Acetamide @lemmy.world

2y ago

So my neighbours got some solar panels installed...

I'm a big fan of solar panels but the alignment could've been better!

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My website after I fail again at CSS ^

Why is that mildly infuriating?
- if I had to guess, probably the lack of proper alignment.
  
  Ohhhhh..... I thought it was going to be the chimneys apparently held in place with duct tape.
- Not the panels themselves but the alignment of the top left two panels.
  
  Ah! Gotcha, that is a little annoying.
- Based on the comment with the image, the alignment of those top two panels compared to everything else being uniform.

you cant go any closer to the skylight or you're gonna punch holes in the flashing and it will leak.
- But they did on the other side? And holes are holes (he said) so all of them need to be sealed.
  
  I have tried to explain that to my wife a hundred times.
- They usually attach a steel structure to the outside of the roof, then they attach the panels to those.
  That should give them all the freedom they need to put the panels wherever looks good.
- omg thank you.

P erfect!

hell, i think it's cool. maybe the upper left set of squares could move right a couple inches, but they look good!

ocd, you'll like this
- Look on the bright side. You can place the plunger right next to the stove and it has space to stand.

i just watched this post get: 1.65k, then 1.5k, then 24, then 5, then 64, and now 5 upvotes... how?
- It's a lemmy glitch happens a lot.
  
  thanks thanks. I just thought it was a bot swarm

Absolutely criminal

It does like a little annoying, but since I'm not a roofer or solar panel installer I feel like there's probably a reason for this that I don't know.
- There is. They have to be installed on the rafters/trusses and the skylight is in the way of being able to put them all on the same rafter/truss.
  They’re usually 16 inches in center so moving over one rafter would put that row off by 16 inches. They probably have the panel installed as far to the end of the support track that they can so it’s only a little bit off instead of a full 16 inches.
  
  Too credible and reasonable an answer, downdooted

Hey this place is supposed to be mildly infuriating, not wildly infuriating! :p

What's wrong with it?
- I think he is talking about the difference between the left and right window margins.

Did the leave the plastic film over the panels?

Lmao this is terrrible. Looks like one of those 2D birds or something

I’d it really not equidistant on both sides of the skylight? < twitch >

This is like adding an image to a word document.

I'm hearing the Tetris music but it's on a cassette that's slightly aged and is slipping a bit.

Much like a lot of Tesla stuff it is basically vaporware. There have been few installations and they are insanely expensive even if you already have to replace your roof.

Installing most anything on a tiled roof can lead to nightmares.

They also claimed to have ballistic proof windows that would handle a nuclear blast

That looks awful😑

I’d like to believe that we are in a transitional period with solar panels, and soon it will be more common for them to just be an integral part of the roof. However I don’t see much uptake for the companies that have tried offering such products. Has anyone seen a house with integrated panels?
- Not gonna happen, house are insanely cheaply built these days.
- That sounds way more expensive and like it has way more points of failure if you live somewhere that occasionally gets hail, tornadoes, or hurricanes. I can only speak for those locations as that's primarily where I've lived, but I would much prefer my roof to be a roof then to chance anything coming in.
  
  Well yeah I agree that when you try to meld two things into one you generally get something more expensive than both which doesn’t perform as well as either. For something as common and well established as roofing materials, it’s going to be very very hard to beat conventional roofs on price and performance while adding electricity generation. Though to be fair, conventional solar panels probably get ripped apart in a hurricane, too.

Looks fine. Get over your adhd.
- That's why it's only mildly infuriating.

Vaporware marketing product.

I thought Tesla had solar shingles that were supposed to be hail etc proof? EDIT: found it https://www.tesla.com/solarroof

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