This is looking pretty complicated. It's not surprising that the standard recommendation is that you get experienced solar installer. OTOH, such installers are used to installing 3-6kW grid-tie systems with dozens of panels, not something rinky-dink 230W system with one panel that I'm kinda doing just for fun.
Anyway, there are lots of brands of standard rails for mounting typical solar panels. Then what do you mount the rails to? Well, some kind of mount. And the typical mount that comes with the typical rail assumes a real roofer is doing the job, and knows how to do appropriate flashing.
Here's a company with a better idea. They have mounts designed for quick installation which include precut flashing to go with it. It's more expensive, but intended to be fast and not requiring roofing professionals, just solar installers. Looks very nice, but they don't make one yet for metal roofs.
http://quickmountpv.com/index.html
Anyway, there are lots of brands of standard rails for mounting typical solar panels. Then what do you mount the rails to? Well, some kind of mount. And the typical mount that comes with the typical rail assumes a real roofer is doing the job, and knows how to do appropriate flashing.
Here's a company with a better idea. They have mounts designed for quick installation which include precut flashing to go with it. It's more expensive, but intended to be fast and not requiring roofing professionals, just solar installers. Looks very nice, but they don't make one yet for metal roofs.
http://quickmountpv.com/index.html
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