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How to prevent snow and debris from building up on the solar panels of a mesh node?

I was looking at the "tipping" mouse trap, a design for which was kindly offered here by Matthias Wandel:
https://woodgears.ca/farm/mousetrap_plans.html

Solar panels can be setup in a similar way. Once there's enough weight on the lever end, the thing tips over, getting rid of snow, debris, etc... If the back end is angled to let snow fall forward, it would let the lever do the work

A simple design requiring no user intervention