DIY Solar Panel Ground Mounts – As close to Dirt Cheap as you can get!
Designed by Dan at the Personal Power Project. The angle iron solar panel mounts, mounting bricks, nuts, bolts, and screws, all purchased from Home Depot for less than $100 per solar panel mount. After 4 or 5 days at 3 or 4 hours per day, in 90 degrees of southern California sun, sun chapped lips and all, I created a very stable, angle iron mount that is portable. Portable is what make them qualify for the no permit needed status. If you were to dig a hole in the ground, put a solar ground mount pole in the in that hole and fill it up with concrete, that makes it permanent which then requires permits. Now that the design work is done and I have installed these for one of my clients, I know from experience the time this takes. Cutting and assembling is about 4 or 5 hours, with the right tools. Installing these solar mounts at a home site takes 4 or 5 hours per mount. Each brick is 30 pounds for a total of 120 pounds, to hold down one 400w solar panel. The pyramid shaped leg mounts is what gives these mounts their stability. There are holes drilled all the way through 2 inches of concrete, 3″ screws, nuts, and one inch diameter washers, on the bottom side of each, that will never pull out like screws set in concrete. All you have to do is grab the solar mounted panels and shake them and you realize there is no shaking it. It’s solid, portable, aligns left, right, up, down, mounts on flat ground, or a hillside. With very uneven ground the angle iron can be cut to level out the panels, even if one leg has to be higher than the other, due to solid uneven rocks. This design can fit into just about any spot you like and will work with any size solar panel. See our Service Agreement – 805-242-3004 call or text us if you want major savings on ground mount solar installations in Santa Barbara or Ventura counties! For those much farther away, I continue to update my information with more details on how this is assembled and a Home Depot parts list so you can DIY no matter where you live. Start small, build over time when you can afford to expand it, so you don’t have to go into huge credit debt to cut your energy bills. These are not to be installed on roofs as you don’t want bricks falling on any heads. We need all the brain power we can keep. 😂
Solar Panel Mobile Ground Mounts – Pictures of the installation process
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