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pirlbeck
Explorer
Apr 22, 2017

150 watts of solar using Lance factory wiring????

I picked up 3 Kyocera KT50 50Watt panels today for almost nothing and would like to put them on my 2009 Lance 845. These are older panels that I think have been discontinued, but the person I got them...
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2oldman
Explorer II
Apr 22, 2017
pirlbeck wrote:
but putting them on the panel output is better then (than) no bypass diodes at all when wiring in series
Yes, it would be better to shut down the shaded panel.

Series wiring eliminates the combiner box and your #12 wiring is good to many more hundreds of watts.

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