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KarlJ

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Joined: 19/05/2008
Location: Australia
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Posted: 05:23am 10 Mar 2010

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Melbourne's hail storms apparently claimed plenty of Solar panels,
not to metion my mums XT Forrester, the Aluminium bonnet copped the worst of it now looking like a golf ball, roof, tops of doors trimmings around the roof all dented randomly.

She was running a seminar at Chadstone Shopping center for the Apple Users Society, part of the roof there collapsed along with some flooding in their underground carparks.

My sister has some pics of it raining very heavily -inside her apartment....

quite a bit of talk on the energy matters forum.

I do wonder if they (the panels) are salvageable to some degree.Edited by KarlJ 2010-03-11

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MacGyver

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Joined: 12/05/2009
Location: United States
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Posted: 12:04am 11 Mar 2010

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I think if they are "amorphous" cells, they are likely salvageable, but the regular "crystalline" ones usually break and become paper weights.

I've been holding out on buying solar panels until I can afford the amorphous type based on this assumption.

. . . . . Mac

Nothing difficult is ever easy!
Perhaps better stated in the words of Morgan Freeman,
"Where there is no struggle, there is no progress!"
Copeville, Texas

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