Ground Mount Security Systems

[confounded]

We have just commissioned a 10kWp ground mount system today and our customer is worried about theft. It is a rural location and although it is feeding the house it is in a location where it is quite hidden.

Is there a system out there to protect ground mount systems or does anyone have a suggestion for how to protect the system?

 

[alarm man]

We have just commissioned a 10kWp ground mount system today and our customer is worried about theft. It is a rural location and although it is feeding the house it is in a location where it is quite hidden.

Is there a system out there to protect ground mount systems or does anyone have a suggestion for how to protect the system?

external ir beams,linked to an alarm system

 

[Markc]

Ball bearings hammered in to the panel clips?

 

[Energetic]

i was thinking along the same lines, fill them up with solder...

 

[dansk]

Not sure, but cable loop in and out of panels linked to alarm.

 

[Green]

Schuco offer anti theft devices for their clips - they essentially do the same job as the ball bearings suggested above.

 

[confounded]

Like your thinking, a good low tech solution.

Can also offer him something more impressive with IR but there are lots of deer around so IR is not that practical without lots of false alarms. Is there a battery operated single zone alarm available?

 

[Earthstore]

This should do it
Or this or maybe this

 

[Markc]

Mount the entire array on insulated rubber feet and drop a DC cable to the array frame. Any potential thief will ground it out when they touch it at a DC voltage of about.......................?

 

[alarm man]

Like your thinking, a good low tech solution.

Can also offer him something more impressive with IR but there are lots of deer around so IR is not that practical without lots of false alarms. Is there a battery operated single zone alarm available?

as dansk says use snap wire,its an old way of protecting things but its false alarm proof,its basic but it works

 

[dingledong]

there is an alarm sensor you bury in the ground and when largish objects move over it it would set an alarm of