Basic Solar Panel Question
I am full time and met another full-timer who has a solar Panel issue. He is in an older C-Class Ford and picked up a panel and got it twisted. Apparently, he reversed the polarity and tried to hook...
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Surviver76 wrote:
Time2Roll, Yes, I immediately took the meter as set to my rig and got 14 volts on the batt terminals of my controller.
No, he did not physically bump or drop the panel.
So I had believed as you say that a reverse of polarity could not fry the panel itself. Seems odd to me, metering the terminals in the junction box with full sun on the panel should be the ultimate test of the panels output right? Direct metering...
You could get 14 V on your meter and still not have it set to a large enough range to read the voltage off the solar panels. I don't know what the ranges are on your meter but generally it's multiples of 10 so set yours at 100 or higher.
