How to Look After Your Solar Panels

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How to Look After Your Solar Panels
Sunpower solar panels are an increasingly common
sight on building throughout the UK. They offer
an opportunity for human kind to disentangle
itself from its reliance on fossil fuel and to
use an energy that will never essentially run
out.   Some people are put off by the amount of
maintenance that they expect to have to do with
their sunpower solar panels. However, they
actually take very little effort. Here, were
going to look at the type of maintenance tasks
that you can expect to have to carry out with
your solar panels.
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Sunpower solar panels
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Solar powers need sunlight as long as its
daytime your solar panels will produce
electricity. It doesnt matter whether theyre
being hit with direct sunlight, or not. As long
as there is some light, they will work. However,
they work better in direct sunlight. This is why
youll see them most often on southerly facing
roofs and pointing in a southerly direction this
is the direction that gets the most sunlight in
the Northern hemisphere. So, you task is to make
sure there is a clear path between your solar
panel and the sun. You do this by   Making sure
they are always relatively clean. Every few
months you should give your solar panels a good
wash. Make sure that you follow the manufacturers
recommended directions because they know best.
You'll probably need to buy special cleaning
products, such as a soft extendible squeegee.
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Making sure there are no overhanging branches
from nearby trees. If you have a tree with
branches over the solar panels, you need to cut
it back. Making sure it is free from other
types of obstruction. Sometime there are other
problematic obstructions, such as lampposts and
pylons. You may be able to prevent the local
council and energy companies from placing their
pylons in places that obstruct solar panels, but
you will have to check locally you know what
the councils are like!  
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Solar panels need servicing just as youd
service your car or your boiler, your solar
panels need servicing too. They need to be
checked to ensure that theyre functioning
efficiently and that theyre working safely.
Again, the manufacturer will give you
recommendations as to how frequently you have
your solar panels serviced. Some may even include
it as part of the warrantee, so make sure you
take full advantage of it.
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Thats really all there is to it. The
manufacturer will be able to go into further
details on how to check the particular system.
They have different controls and check lights,
but a manual will tell you exactly what the
various flashy lights mean. Every day or so, look
at the settings on the control panels and make
sure that nothing is going awry and that there
are no warning signals. If there are, simply
consult the manual and follow the appropriate
advice. Its usually very simple.  
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