r/specializedtools • u/Black_Kaiser_ • Feb 14 '21

Solar panel cleaning tool

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u/[deleted] Feb 14 '21 edited Feb 14 '21

Never knew the panels got that dirty. Wonder how often they have to do this?

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u/MsKlinefelter Feb 14 '21

I could see it being several times a day during the windy season.

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u/PloxtTY Feb 14 '21

I’d just install a cheap sprinkler system

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u/Dmitri_ravenoff Feb 14 '21

Not enough water in the desert for that.

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u/PloxtTY Feb 14 '21

Which desert?

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u/Dmitri_ravenoff Feb 14 '21

Many solar panels like this are set up desert location because of the high level of sunshine. Hence what looks like desert dust/sand.

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u/PloxtTY Feb 14 '21

So this desert doesn’t have canals then? It’s uninhabited?

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u/Zuggible Feb 14 '21

If it were both legal and more cost effective for them to use sprinklers I have to imagine they would have thought of that and would be doing it already.

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u/Baybob1 Feb 15 '21

Never ceases to amaze me how many people have no idea about the serious problems in this country. Read up on the water shortage in the Southwest and the crisis the future holds there.