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Think of them as (glass) fence panels with a convenient mounting frame. Just respect their dislike for partial shading from objects that are "near" (cast a hard shadow with wel defined borders relative to the cell/grid size on the panel), and it'll be fine. If they are arranged to have substantially different sun intensity and/or timing, run them through separate MPPTs or use "power optimizers" that do the same effort but without requiring more wires back to central than the simple "one single string of panels" has.

Due to recent issues out there: calculate worst winter peak voltage and make sure there's a healthy margin to the peak allowed safe/no-damage input voltage to the MPPT/charge-controller/inverter.

Panels eat less of their own current at any given operating voltage, the colder they are. And winter mornings after soaking in night cold are worst case conditions for that as they had no time to heat up yet for the first minutes past sunrise.



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