The cost of these fasteners is minimal compared to t he potential cost of replacing stolen solar panels.
Keep thieves from stealing solar panels van.
The following are recommended courses of action to protect your panels from theft.
Hi guys i m from south africa i work for a wisp here we run our towers of solar systems and we tried everything we could but doesn t matter what we do they end up stealing the panels have done alarm systems pepper spray cameras all 3 together and with the police and a security company on call they still get away with the panels.
Protect yourself from solar panel theft.
And you can track the solar panel if it is stolen.
What can be done to keep your solar panels where they belong.
Installing locks throughout your solar array in place of standard fasteners creates a difficult barrier for thieves to break into.
We started off with these.
You can enter any phone number into the tracker and that number will be contacted should your solar panel be moved from its locating.
About the same time we were seeing posts about people having their solar panels go missing when people were on day trips how to protect solar panels from theft.
Police recovered more than 70 000 worth of solar panels stolen from a private school in el cerrito calif according to the mercury news.
Not far from ms.
There are a few companies however that have come up with solar panel security fasteners.
Detectives placed bids and won the panels and arrested the man when he tried to complete the transaction.
Just like a car lojack system the solar tracker works the same way.
Some brazen thieves are marching into yards and removing the precious panels from sticks and bricks homes but rv solar panels are attractive as well.
Solar panel thieves disrupt clean water supplies 3rd september 2020 leonard ncube victoria falls reporter some rural communities outside victoria falls have been struggling to get clean water for the past few months after thieves destroyed solar powered boreholes by stealing panels and pumps.
We researched and found three options that seemed the best.
Some solar panel thieves disguise themselves as solar installation companies so that when neighbours see them on someone s rooftop they assume they re doing maintenance or even installing a new system when really they are stealing an already existing system.
Hoffman in the town of palm desert jim and shayna powell were devastated after thieves took 19 of their solar panels in june causing their electricity bill to shoot from 3 to.
They were cheap easy and very convenient.
If you ve purchased a solar panel you know they re an expensive item.
Security fasteners provides a solution without the extra cost of materials.
Tamper resistant screws are a possibility.
There are currently few options for securing solar panels safely.