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Analyze the PV panels for the year

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Analyze the PV panels for the year

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- Okay, if you open the file called Photo Voltaic Panels Begin, what I've got here is a mass family that if I edit type, so what it's got is parameters for the length, width, height, and so on. What I'm going to do is just say Duplicate, so it's going to be width six, depth six, but the number of degrees I'm going to change that. So I'm going to say change that 37.75, so that should be the optimum angle four our meter because it's the latitude of 37.75, and then I'm going to go in here and change that, too, and if you watch 37.75. Okay, you see it, the tilt change. So what I can have is for any panel, I can pick from the different types. What if it was 30 degrees? What if it was 45 degrees? So what I'm going to do is say Match and put this back the way it was. That panel and that panel are the same. So I want to do an analysis. These are facing due south and these are tucked at an angle, so I've got the same number of panels on the roof. First thing I want to do under Analyze and…

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