The Chicken Coop is the front half of a 2-car garage that we keep out back.
The second half was for basic stuff I thought would be needed some day, but appears to be mostly junk after all.
Since there isn't a dander and dust-proof wall between the front half and the second half of the garage, some measure may need to be taken to ensure that the electronics do not burn up as a result.
The preferred type of wall to install solar components to is masonry (which already comprise all 4 walls of this project's domicile).
Luckily a man arrived a few weeks prior to this project's commencement and purchased the motor out of the old fuel-burning stove seen held-high by the Kubota.
The guy only wanted the motor so I had a metal frame to use for this project. Win-Win.
The first phase of building the new power-plant, was to choose the best location where the regulating and storage system would not be exposed to the outside elements.
This particular project is pushing those boundaries since the building is not heated, nor air-tight.
Using the remains of the old left-over oil-burner, a battery compartment was born.
There was no way to fit all six batteries in the main compartment. But as luck would have it, beyond the main compartment wall of the metal enclosure is another smaller enclosure that is just enough space to fit the remaining two off-grid batteries.
The Power Wall Project with two inverters. 
One inverter converts the 12v storage to AC nominal. The other "re-purposed" inverter converts the 110v nominal back down to stabilized 12v (for the 12v appliances). The latter inverter would allow for regulated 12v energy and is comprised of a re-purposed computer power supply.
A 3kw-6kw Inverter was used to convert the energy for the AC-powered appliances. Eventually another, smaller 400w inverter was also incorporated into the project to handle some of the cameras and peripheral infra-red broadcasters.
Four Sets of 2 solar panels create the energy required to maintain the energy bank consisting of 360-amp-hour wet-cell batteries.
Shown are two of the four sets (all of which are connected to 24v).
The awning solar panels consist of two 24v panels connected in parallel, whereas the other solar array (seen in the foreground) are comprised of two 12v panels connected in series to 24v. So where there is two power sources derived from the larger awning panels which are already 24v (200w@24v), there is only one power lead from the 12v panel in series to 24v (100w@24v). Not shown are the other two solar arrays that were also allocated to this system..
But concerning a remedy to the presumed shadow caused by the gutter, one tentative solution might be to bridge away from the wall with some welded bracing similar to the type that hold up common shelving but with thicker/wider steel, and then bridging between the two braces with a lateral piece of steel that the hinges will be adhered to. This is just a tentative idea because one of the down-sides of this method would create a situation concerning the bottom lateral support for the solar panels. A motor would have to be incorporated into the project because I'm getting old and adjusting all the panels two or three times per year manually is out of the question.
The window awning units may need to be relocated because I believe the summer sun will cast a shadow over the panels created by the garage's gutter system..
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