Solar Panel Wind Deflector

This is especially true of panels with slopes of 10 degrees or less that feature wind protection deflectors.

Solar panel wind deflector.

The invention relates to an aerodynamic wind deflector for use with pitched panels or structures mounted on horizontal flat surfaces. From looking at the diagram you attached the wind deflector is simply a blank panel mounted the same way the solar panels themselves are mounted. Here is a rough sketch red is brackets black is panel purple is ramp. Any racking system designed for angled mounting on a flat or near flat roof should allow you to install a wind deflector just by buying additional parts.

I am mounting solar panels on top of a recreational vehicle rv. Kimberley have a forward facing solar panel on the top of the front box lid of their kampers faces like a wind deflector would i ve had fist size rocks spitting out the back of my 4wd up near kingfisher camp in the nt peppered the camper with stone chips out west around birdsville etc etc and still no sign of the solar panel sustaining any damage. So rule 1 for measuring useful wind loads on roof mounted solar panels. If you don t test the panels under these vortices you have no idea how much lift the panels will see near the edges of the roof.

To reduce drag i was planning on building a small ramp in front of the panels to deflect wind before it hits the flat panel and mounts. Part of the reason for this lack of innovation is that solar panels need some space between them and the roof of your rv. Just want to show off my solar panel and wind deflector i was a bit worried that the angle of my panel was a bit steep but its not as steep as my windscreen and it allows me to put a few light items behind it. Elliptically profiled wind deflector with uniformly spaced short fins that were positioned before the tilted panels was proven to minimize the high wind loads by as much as half compared to the wind loads without the deflector.

The wind deflector is made of corflute. I don t know if it will make that much differance but the tent is the least aerodynamic lump. Rooftop solar panels solar panel deflectors wind loads ballast. Advances in fluid mechanics ix 15.

More particularly the invention relates to a wind deflector including a contoured surface for deflecting aerodynamic forces away from a pitched structure such as a solar panel mounted to a horizontal flat surface such as a roof top wherein the structure.