My solar install!
I could swear I posted about this somewhere, but can't find it for the life of me...
I speent the last couple weeks filling the roof of my monaco with solar panels!
I started with 4, and liked it so much I added 2 more today to max the system out.
On a sunny day I am getting 50, that is FIFTY amps into the batteries.
Panels are Hightec Solar, 150 watts, 18 volts no load, they measure 27" by 60", and are american made in Michigan, $165 each ish, free shipping, ebay.
Charge controller is an Outback 60 amp MPPT, just under $600 on ebay.
I used 70 feet of 8 gauge wire, and 18 feet od 4 gauge. Wire is expensive.
I made my own brackets out of alluminum barstock and angle stock, and mounted the panels a couple inches off the roof to allow air cisrculation under them. The first 4 panels are tiltable in either direction.
I maade a combiner box out of stuff from home depot. The panels are wired in series pairs, and the 3 pairs are combined together on bus bars, with 4 gauge wire going down to the controller. I brought the wires down behind the baathroom closet, then back. The controller mounts behind the magnum inverter, 4 feet from the batteries. Pos goes right to the battery, neg to the "upstream side" of the shunt for the mangum bmk battery monitor.
I normally plug in in storage, I leave the fridge on, and the inverter, and other stuff. I haven't plugged in in a week, and the batteries are at 88%!
I'll get some pictures up, I'm on the wrong computer for that now.
I speent the last couple weeks filling the roof of my monaco with solar panels!
I started with 4, and liked it so much I added 2 more today to max the system out.
On a sunny day I am getting 50, that is FIFTY amps into the batteries.
Panels are Hightec Solar, 150 watts, 18 volts no load, they measure 27" by 60", and are american made in Michigan, $165 each ish, free shipping, ebay.
Charge controller is an Outback 60 amp MPPT, just under $600 on ebay.
I used 70 feet of 8 gauge wire, and 18 feet od 4 gauge. Wire is expensive.
I made my own brackets out of alluminum barstock and angle stock, and mounted the panels a couple inches off the roof to allow air cisrculation under them. The first 4 panels are tiltable in either direction.
I maade a combiner box out of stuff from home depot. The panels are wired in series pairs, and the 3 pairs are combined together on bus bars, with 4 gauge wire going down to the controller. I brought the wires down behind the baathroom closet, then back. The controller mounts behind the magnum inverter, 4 feet from the batteries. Pos goes right to the battery, neg to the "upstream side" of the shunt for the mangum bmk battery monitor.
I normally plug in in storage, I leave the fridge on, and the inverter, and other stuff. I haven't plugged in in a week, and the batteries are at 88%!
I'll get some pictures up, I'm on the wrong computer for that now.
