Solar in Cheyenne has to survive wind uplift and hail on the same roof. Open lots have the sun and the gust together. Tree streets have more shade and still get ice on the exposed slope. Neither should get an array while the covering is bruised, curled, or lifted. Granules in the gutter mean the roof is first. Feet and rails are second. Mounting through a hail-marked slope locks the bad covering in place and makes the next tear-off a fight with the wind already winning.
Ask how the mounts are flashed and how they are meant to take a gust that does not relax. Hail is a glass question, not a reason to invent what the equipment will do in July or in a white month. Ask what happens to the array when the roof is replaced, because in this town the roof is in the weather every year. An aerial photo has not seen dented vents, a soft deck, or the panel. Someone has to. Older services may be small. Ask what is there before an inverter is named.
Name the modules and the inverter. Ask who owns the equipment and who you call when it is quiet. Put that gear where the windward drift will not bury it. Shade from a mature tree on the older streets can erase the hours a bare-lot drawing assumed. Say which lot you have. If the answers are fuzzy, the clear high-plains light is not the scope.
Do not attach until wind damage and hail damage are both looked at. A scope that only chases bruises will miss a lifted rake. A scope that only chases the rake will miss glass that hail will hit again. Those are roof and hardware facts. They are not a story about the meter. If a claim is open on the covering, finish it before any foot goes down. You want flashed attachments on a roof that can still take a storm, and a service that can take the equipment.
Say the part of town, the age of the roof, and whether hail, wind, or both have already marked it. Mention shade and the panel. If the covering is tired, start there. Call the number on this page.