Hi I'm Shawn Haddock with S-5!. Today
we're gonna be installing the S-5! PVKIT 2.0.
We've laid some panels on this roof just for purposes
of this demonstration to show you
different layout methods and nuances
of those methods.
What we've done here is I've tried to
center
the panel pretty much on the seam
to try to help keep it square
going up and also
my attachment point on the panel would
be the same on every single panel. You
may see a little bit of difference where you're
attaching here at the eave
and then up at the ridge you might be over a little
bit. It's just your
panels are gonna stay square where your roof
may not.
The other thing about this method
is it leaves me an access and a correction
gap where it makes
it a little harder to see that the roof may not
be square with the panels
if I butt these up as another option
and we'll go ahead and do that now.
So now I've butted the panels up
and I could attach here
and I can attach here. You'll notice this distance
is different which
as long as it's within where the module manufacturer
says that I can attach,
I'm okay.
And that all is relative to
the width of your module
and the width of your seam, your seam spacing.
So these details you kind of want to iron
out on paper before you get up on the
roof to do the install
on this one. We're gonna go ahead and install it the
way we had before leaving the correction gap.
So now that we've determined are layout, I need
to determine where I'm gonna attach clamps
in preparation to set my bottom row.
Now
I'm gonna attach on this seam
and on this seam.
So two points of attachment, every
fourth seam.
If this were in a high wind zone, high wind
area engineering may have determined
that I need three or even four points of attachment.
So I could utilize these other seams.
In this case we're gonna go with the two.
And just so I know that
I'm just gonna put a little X on
this seam.
And an X on this seam.
But when I get to my next module
I've got to remember, okay I'm skipping this
seam and then I'm gonna put one
on this seam
and then again my 4th seam.
And we're going to go into
measuring for our first clamp
and we're going to go up
six inches.
So I'm gonna make a mark at six inches,
that's where I'm going to place my clamp.
It's important when using
a string line to make sure that your string
rests on the edge of the clamp.
First, I'm gonna pre-thread this in there just to make sure
I have it, I don't cross-thread it by mistake
and then I'll ease it down
and I'll do that throughout the entire bottom row
so I can set my module into place.
You want to make sure that
you hold your panel down into it.
You want to be sure your tightly engaging
the Grab.
From here, the beauty of the new PVKIT
is that I can use the module
as a jig.
So our next row,
we'll go ahead and just lay the clamp in, tighten
it down,
lay the next module in, tighten it down
and continue on up the roof.
Put my clamp on the seam,
slide the grab down
into place, I'll go ahead and tighten my
clamp
and then
snug down
my Grab just enough.
Not too much that it's squeezing the module, otherwise
I won't be able to get the second module in place.
Line up my module, make sure I'm nice and
square.
Some installers will go ahead and leave these loose
and continue all the way up. What that allows
is that once I've got this whole column
in, I can then come back
and eyeball down it and make
sure it looks right, I can still move them
and we'll go ahead and do that here.
Tighten the clamp
snug
the Mid Grab. I'm putting down pressure
on the module as well as
pushing down so that I'm sure it's in place
below.
So now we've completed our install on our
first column.
And that's it, it's that simple on this first column,
aside from your bottom row,
you can pre-assemble all of these clamps
to your PVKITs.
There you have it, it's that simple.
Something to mention on this is
it's the end of the day, I'm ready to go home, I might be in a
windy environment, not finished doing
my install, I can go ahead and tighten
these Mid Grabs down and know that
the modules aren't gonna go anywhere.
Okay, so here with this
layout, as I mentioned
when we were first kind of designing and
laying things out,
I've got this this area here now
as a walkway
where I've got easy access to any module
in the entire array.
If for instance, this module were
to go bad on me,
I can simply pull these four brackets,
pull the module out and replace it.
They're still held in place by the brackets above
and below so they're not going anywhere.
It gives you a pretty easy way to do that. Thank
you for watching, this concludes the video. I hope
you've learned something and see how easy it is
to use the new and improved S-5! PVKIT 2.0.