Can I Stand on Flexible Solar Panels?
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hi jeff cote here with ask pys so we've got a question from a fellow boarder john john asks jeff i've got a 28 foot well craft and with a hard top the kids like to jump off the roof but i would like to install solar panels i heard that you can glue them to the fiberglass roof can you stand on them okay good question all right first of all yes it is possible to mount flexible solar panels that are glued to your hard top but there's a big butt you need to have few things one of them is that solar panels cannot bridge any gap so when you're gluing those solar panels if you're going to walk on them the surface beneath the solar panel before you glue it has to be perfectly perfectly smooth so if you've got anti-skid up there and you've got dimples every i don't know four or five millimeters apart you cannot walk on a solar panel that has actually anti-skid beneath it it needs to be the solar panel needs to be glued on a perfectly perfectly smooth surface condition number one condition number two a wet flexible solar panel which has a extremely smooth epoxy finish on it is basically an ice rink and you should never ever ever ever walk on that solar panel because if you do and if your feet are even even remotely wet you will definitely fall it's an ice rink so what we do when we actually install solar panels that are flexible and we're going to install them on a surface we actually buy them with sort of an etch surface meaning that surface is actually roughed roughened up so that when you step on that panel you're not going to slip so if you're going to install a flexible solar panel on a hard top and you want to be able to walk on top of it make sure a that the surface beneath it is perfectly smooth so that when you glue the panel the panel does not have any gaps beneath it and second make sure that this solar panel was purchased with an etch surface or an anti-skid surface so that it's not slippery when wet thank you for watching this pys video if you've got further questions ask them down below or go on our website to fill one of the forms don't forget to subscribe and thanks for watching English (auto-generated) Videolytics Tools
