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Solar panel cleaning schedule might be backwards for most of us
I kept seeing everyone in my neighborhood in Austin scrubbing panels every month, but the guy who installed mine said rain handles it here unless we get a bad dust storm. He showed me the output logs, panels dropped maybe 4 percent after 8 months without a wipe. I think we're wasting water and time on panels that sit at a decent tilt. Has anyone actually tracked their generation before and after a deep clean, or are we just following what the cleaning companies tell us?
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lucashenderson18d ago
Tilt matters more than people think. Panels laid flat catch dust and bird droppings way worse than anything with a decent angle. Rain does most of the work here, but that only holds if your setup isn't practically horizontal.
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