DIY Ground mounted Solar Panels with adjustable angles 

More details on this project on the instructables web site: www.instructables.com/id/Ground-Mounted-Solar-Panels-With-Adjustable-Angles/

Nice diy project. Smiled when I saw your wife helping. Something to be proud of for sure.

Bob you're brilliant. I am building your panels now. You have the best engineered DIY panel support system RU-vid. I didn't have any cement to support the panel for a foundation so I just added a 4x4 square frame for my foundation to attach the frames you designed. Mine are going to sit on patio stones which will be leveled on the ground which is not level at all. I will use my tractor to try to level the ground as much as possible. Thank you sir for sharing your system, you saved me a lot of money. Bless you!

This is the first ever video I watched from your channel. I never thought I'd see someone use a saw to cut grass. Nice one. Love the build.

This is what I had in mind for my panels when I set my system up. My only difference is using the stainless corkscrews you put in the ground to put your dog lead on and attaching my 4 x 4s to those to anchor them in the ground. That will make leveling pretty easy as well as keeping them above the ground and pretty well anchored down against those unpredictable Ohio winds. Thank you for the actualization of what I mostly in my mind.

I like it. Looks nice and can be locked in the down position if you know a storm is coming

Good job! I did 10 panels recently before I found your video. Very helpful, you give me some good ideas. Thank you.

Nicely done old-timer might steal your idea love it

thank you for sharing, will be the basis of the panel mount i will be making, very practical / adjustable, perfect for what i need.

Good job, Mr. Kelland !

Interesting for off grid but I chose 300 watt panels which are about 50 cents a watt instead of 100s and the energy density is better. I also use grid tie inverters .. run the meter backwards in summer not in winter.Either way I lowered my bill by almost 100 / month for an investment of under 2000 With cheaper panels I was able to just add more panels and avoid the whole adjust ability part. If I need 1200 watts and I'm not optimal I added 2 extra panels and met my goal. (have 1800 watts worth of rated watts but get about 1200 on average) but no fuss and I used all UL approved rackign hardware that will pass any inspection. (Iron ridge system) It's been installed 2 and a half years and we are delighted with lower bills.

Very cool. I have 100w and getting another 200w panels and 1.2kWh battery this friday. Cool video man, tnx for sharing. +1

I want to do a ground mount where I can change the angle by season. This gives me some ideas, though I'm attracted by 400w modules. I also want to be able to walk under it, but those are details.

I didn't know one could buy 100 watt panels. You could replace those with actual solar panels and quadruple the output. Nice frame and adjustment design.

Excellent DIY project. Thanks for sharing.

Love this. Will be doing it for my off grid home.

I dont have the space so will be forced to place on shed. I have also several 100 watt panels. I'm doing power back up and grid tie setup.

great job ! You gave me some ideas ..Thanks

Good job sir, thanks for sharing a good level of detail

holy fuck ricky we have solar panels

This was an excellent project. Great job!

excelent video, I will do the same as you. thank you.

You're my hero.. A new use for a reciprocating saw.. Cutting up the sod!

Well done! Thanks for the video!

hi, i'm dwi from Indonesia. Can i use and share your video for my student to explain how to make ground mounted solar panels? Thx

Looks great. So, the solar panels are not screw/attached to the frame? They are just captured by the frame with PVC and aluminum?

Well done video. Nicely designed pv panel rack. You must be pretty far up north to use a 76 degree tilt angle. I think the best year round tilt angle for non adjustable racks is about 5 degrees less than your latitude.... I believe?

Do you have a follow up with respect to the comparison energy generation for the two different angles? Also of the 1,000W system, how is your battery bank set up and how do you utilize the "free" energy?

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I'm curious how this worked out for you and what conclusions reached. Maybe I'm missing it, but I don't see where you posted any further videos about it.

Very Nice

Brilliant!

Thanks for the demo it’s a good project nicely done. Question. Was there a need to ground the solar panels in the array. And also or include a fuse in the wiring of the panels to the charge controller??

Very nice!

Great idea

Nice job!!!!

That's good for different seasons but how about for sun rise and sunset. Need a way to pivot the panels in both directions.

Very nice.

Had the same idea too, just not with so much wood...

EXCELLENT!!!!

very nice.. are you happy with the results after a few years of use.?

Did you have much voltage drop from running the wires into your house?

going with 100w cost to much it cheaper with bigger panels i 10 235w 24v for $102 a panels . but looks good

Lovely

What was the results of the testing with the different angles?

Looks Great. My? What about the NFL. Wind?

u get to ground every panel

Those holes are way to close to the edge of the concrete slab if you ask me.

Not sure why people are using wood for frames when panels are lasting 30 years. The wood will rot away long before the panels are worn out and will require replacement. Not to mention damaged panels when the wood fails and panels go flying in a storm.

I like the stain color.

I'm in my mid 30's, but I don't think I would ever have the strength do this on my own. You sir, are full of stamina and blessed with amazing skills; my hat goes off to you...

looks pretty solid. Thats not going anywhere.

This looks awesome, Haven't seen the video but here's a like, thumbs up.

Are you planning on adding maybe a couple of electric actuators and make the whole system automatically adjusted?

The rod on top of the drill is a depth gauge where you don’t need the tape on the bit

The perfect packaging of the new panels is admirable, in my country the suppliers deliver in a simple box that arrives broken and with the panel frame dented

"Maybe" at your latitude it's worth doing, but here (42 deg North), changing angle only amounts to about 5-6% gain. Tracking east-west gives about 15%. I built active trackers for 3 of my arrays back when panels were $4/watt. Now at 50-60cents/watt, it is simply cheaper to add a few more panels and forget tracking. I'd also be concerned how those would hold up to wind.

love your design should do update on your solar array, what controller and battery bank etc.

I have 17 kw worth of panels I got for cheap. Not worth ground mounting in a giant array so I “ground” mounted them using old railroad ties and tie downs. Gets me a 30 degree angle but it’s pretty much a set angle. Your is beautiful but I imagine the wood for mine, all 75 of them, would be more than the panels. Nice to see a craftsman at work.

Now just need to mark the month on each bolt hole to know where to adjust it each month... sweet design.

Brilliant! Well done! I am going to do something very similar very soon. I came to a similar design in my head but was having a hard time figuring out what to do at the top where the panel rack connection needs to be able to connect at different points for the various angles. Your idea is perfect! Thank you!

If you would have aligned the “front” of the panels to the other side of your walkway, you would have had part of the walkway available to use.

My question is.... Weather the adjustable wooden hide some of solar panels

I really like this design. I was wondering if you electrically bonded all the pannels, and and if so, how.

How do you deal with the shadows from the back braces?

Not much point in using 100 watt panels when you can buy 300 watts for less, see solarsteals

Very nicely done.

Awesome project pro tip used home solar panels are alot cheaper than those colemans

Awesome job.

Nice work 👍🏻 clever set up

Grounding???

This was just a joy to watch based solely on your craftsmanship, sir. Thank you very much!

Nice work.

Love your angle adjust design.

What was the cost of materials?

Very nice video. I’m think of doing something similar to avoid roof mounting. I would like to run 120v circuits on solar and leave high power 220 volt appliances to be fed by the utility. I’d be interested in the electrical side of this project. How do you connect to your home circuit panel. Size / type of your solar converter, DC to AC Inverter size, auto or manual switch over to/from utility?