[DJW]

Anyone managed to bodge one up for scraping lichen from solar panels?

[NWH]

Don’t really think that’s a good idea on solar panels m8 unless it’s plastic.

[the king]

Gardner supper scraper works ok on solar panels  still hard work think maby spray with biocide then come back to wfp in few days

[Smudger]

yep I have a nice 14" wide one

pre soak panels with hypo - 10 min coffee break and off you go - then rinse off

Darran

[Splash & dash]

yep I have a nice 14" wide one

pre soak panels with hypo - 10 min coffee break and off you go - then rinse off

Darran

Hypo on solar panels , arnt you worried about corrosion damage to the alloy frames ?? And possibly on the wiring ? What mix do you use ?

[DJW]

Got a pic of your scraper Smurf? I use the Gardiner one but it’s too small and unstable for panels.

[Smudger]

yep I have a nice 14" wide one

pre soak panels with hypo - 10 min coffee break and off you go - then rinse off

Darran

Hypo on solar panels , arnt you worried about corrosion damage to the alloy frames ?? And possibly on the wiring ? What mix do you use ?

No Aluminium is pretty hypo resistant in it’s raw state and totally safe if anodised - then added security of being washed off - 3 or 4 to 1 mix

If wires are waterproof then they are hypo proof as you know plastic is unaeffected by hypo - and I don’t recall ever sticking a brush under the panels to soak the wiring - pretty happy with what we do

Darran

[Splash & dash]

yep I have a nice 14" wide one

pre soak panels with hypo - 10 min coffee break and off you go - then rinse off

Darran

Hypo on solar panels , arnt you worried about corrosion damage to the alloy frames ?? And possibly on the wiring ? What mix do you use ?

No Aluminium is pretty hypo resistant in it’s raw state and totally safe if anodised - then added security of being washed off - 3 or 4 to 1 mix

If wires are waterproof then they are hypo proof as you know plastic is unaeffected by hypo - and I don’t recall ever sticking a brush under the panels to soak the wiring - pretty happy with what we do

Darran

It’s interesting hearing how others do things , but hypo does  corrode aluminium badly especially plastic coated industrial building sandwich panels on any exposed edges , so I would be a bit worried about it getting between the alloy frame and the glass panel , we scrape the panels and treat with bio  but generally try and avoid ones covered in licken unless it’s huge amounts of money , we recently did a job that  SS quoted the customer over 1k to do  12 panels with light amounts of   licken took less than two hours £800 customer was highly delighted and so were we 😂😂😂