Still no way to deconstruct solar cells without being electrocuted or frozen.

[Tryst49]

If you do it at night, you take a beating from the cold and can die before completeing the job.
If you do it during the day, you can be electrocuted.

Seriously, any sane person would put a switch on it so you can power it down to deconstruct it without being fried.

[Pyramid Games]

You can deconstruct them without being electrocuted, just do it in the right spot away from cables and sockets or you can hit it with the Rover first :) We did that during one of the streams, you can see it here: https://youtu.be/dtGeseVqtRo?t=2740
also here:
https://youtu.be/dtGeseVqtRo?t=5468

[Hate Bear]

It's not very intuitive, but it's better to point away from the socket with the grinder because sockets can't be closed and it can't be turned off. Alternatively, circling around to the opposite side and grinding on the back of it is also good.

I am a big fan of doing the farmer method and waking up an hour early. So you wake up, do your morning business (usually hydrate), go outside, grind your old panel, replace it with a new panel (that you wisely did component counts and printed the right stuff the previous day for), and hook it up, and just as the sun crests the horizon you can be configuring your transformers going from upstream to downstream.

It requires some autism, but it is doable. You also can't kill yourself by only waking up an hour early or being outside for just an hour cold.

[Tryst49]

I did try doing it away from the socket. I was well above it at the joint. I still got zapped... TWICE
After failing the first time, I reloaded the game and tried again.
On my third attempt, I tried on the other side from the socket and above it at the joint and got zapped a third time.
That was just the small solar cell.

Using the Rover doesn't seem like a good idea. It might destroy the solar cell but also damages the Rover. It can also require some nifty manouvering that the rover just isn't capable of if the solar cell is situated between others.

Even if pulling out the plug so it's not connected to anything powers it down, that would help. Otherwise it's a gamble.

I have 3 I need to deconstruct and put elsewhere, 2 small ones and a medium one. That needs more than an hour due to the super speed clock that ticks off an hour a minute, (seriously, that needs to be slowed to at least half the speed).