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Mounted two rails on the second shed, wrestled a 40 lb solar panel up there. Found some issues with my mounting plans. Will have to solve them another day. Will need to rewire inside a bit as I have to swap out the solar controller. (house panels vs. 12V panels... different open circuit voltage). Will also put up one more panel there.

Lessons today:
1. Definitely need UV rated wire, one of the old panels I had wired up with THHN wire, and the coating had almost entirely decayed.
2. Clamping the panel to the rails isn't sufficient at the angle I have this roof, but I re-used the old "tray" which was part of the prior solar install as a lip to hold up the panel. (will also be clamped to the rails)
3. Probably better to recruit some help to get heavy panels up on a shed -- or rig a pulley system. I managed to do so safely using brute force, but it's not easy, and you most certainly could drop a panel if things went south.