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<\/a><\/p>\nThe one I was looking to hire was a Genie SLA10 and would cost me around \u00a379.00 a day from a more local hire firm in Harrow.<\/p>\n
After visiting them and determining that it would not it in the back of my car (unlike the GL10), I arranged to have it delivered on Tuesday as my son did not have college that day.<\/p>\n Tuesday morning and the Genie lift arrived at about 08:10, right when I was in the middle of my 10,000m SkiErg time trial, so I had to have my wife go and sign for it as I was not about to stop.<\/p>\n Around lunch time, I finally had a gap in my various meetings, so went out to set up the Genie lift and start moving some of the ballast slabs.<\/p>\n I had taken them off their pallet on the weekend and stacked them in front of the Cinema room so that I could finally charge my car again.<\/p>\n I used one of the pallets that came with the various solar deliveries as a platform and lifted the slabs in two groups, 30 the first time and then 16 on the second.<\/p>\n This lift is supposed to be capable if lifting 464Kg with an 18 to 24″ load centre, although how you would manage to winch that up I have no idea.<\/p>\n Lifting the 30 x 9Kg tiles and the pallet was probably around 300Kg and it took my son on one handle and me on the other to winch it up, I hate to think what it would be like with another 150Kg on it.<\/p>\n The slabs were then stacked on the roof ready for use when I start laying out the solar panels.<\/p>\n In order to make the batteries as light as possible, I decided to remove all of the micro inverters from each battery.<\/p>\n It is advised to drill the holes for conduit\/stuffing glands before mounting on the wall, so I did this next.<\/p>\n These are 32mm holes for M32 IP68 stuffing glands, I will be using 20mm rigid PVC conduit between the batteries and the solar sub panel.<\/p>\n The left most battery only has a gland installed on the right side, the other two have glands installed both sides (there will ultimately be a fourth battery which will only have a gland on the left side).<\/p>\n I had also purchased the Enphase lifting handles to make the job of carrying the batteries and lifting them onto their mounts easier.<\/p>\n These were not cheap, but the job would have been much more difficult without them.<\/p>\n I made use of the base part of the battery box as protection against the pallet and Genie lift, this also meant that I could drag it off the pallet and partially onto the roof before attempting to lift it up.<\/p>\n The pallet is offset on the forks so that the bulk of the weight of the battery sits between them and I can have the Genie lift closer to the wall.<\/p>\n I put the middle one up first, then the left one and finally the right one<\/p>\n Next job was to re-install the micro inverters that had all been stacked on my lounge floor along with the covers.<\/p>\n It was easier to just take them all up in one go with the Genie lift than take them up 3 at a time on the ladder.<\/p>\n Having screwed them all back in place, I set about installing the ‘seizmic’ screws, top clips, conduit covers and finally installed the covers and screwed these in place as well.<\/p>\n All secured and weather safe ready for me to do some wiring on the weekend.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I came home from rowing Saturday and attempted to hire a Genie Lift, having left it too late to book one on Friday. 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