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I have an existing ground mounted, south facing solar array designed for four panels (I used a flat roof mount because it was easier and cheaper, bolted to concrete). I want to make another array and put it directly behind it. Is there a general rule of thumb like how far away it should be...

Specs are surprisingly not very informative, but it does show both an AC input from the grid and an AC output.

I have a cheap Chinese inverter that is off-grid and designed to take solar DC and either converts that to AC or charge a 48 v DC battery (or both at the same time). I'm considering not installing solar panels to connect to this, but i have spare 48 v batteries i want to charge somehow. I could...

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It is already used

More like oriented 2 degrees north. Roof slope is 30 degrees

I have an east facing roof that I want to put solar panels on. The roof is about 2° north facing. I’d like to add a slight tilt to a roof mounted system to at least zero out the north facing, but possibly add a few more degrees south facing. I’ll be using standard aluminum root mounts for clay...

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I have an existing solar array of 6 panels wired in series. I am going to be changing that to two arrays of 3 panels connected in parallel. Do I need to change the way it is grounded? Should I for example have the ground wire follow the neutral instead as illustrated in the picture?

Coldest is about 0° C. I see a vmpp (rated voltage) of 41.60V (standard testing) and 38.05V (nominal operation).