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Originally Posted by TheEnemy
Guess I'm just a little pesamistic about how long they will last, after every solar system PV and thermal, and skylight in town was taken out by hail a few years ago. It really made a mess of town.
Edit to add: Are you converting to DC or are you still needing to buy inverters?
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Enphase grid tie micro inverters will be the most likely route because they add around $.50 per watt to the system and also have a 25 year warranty.
If you had the kind of hail that can take out PV panels then I'm sure your area got natural disaster relief, the last system I saw time I saw PV installed (3 blocks away, a few months ago) the installer was stepping on the panels while installing the system, it's not recommended, but the laminated safety glass is pretty impressive stuff, but if you get hail, like you had, that destroys everything in it's path then sure, it's going to destroy everything in it's path!!