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Solar Panels

How to Find Wind Pressure on Solar Panels

By Chris Rosencutter | March 6, 2020
Roof Solar Panel Array

In this article we will investigate the procedure for calculating the design wind pressure on rooftop solar panels per ASCE 7-16 design code. I feel like the best way to describe this procedure is by working through an example, and that’s just what we will do. For this example, we will look at a 30ft…

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