BoonHauler Solar Project
I told a few of you that I would post my Solar build here as well so here we go. I had originally planed for an 800 watt array but since then I decided to double the size and I'm now at 1650 watts....
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Here’s a look with four of the six panels installed.
And here’s a close up of the mount. I used a ¼” clevis pin as the hinge pin. The hairpins were installed once the wiring was completed.
Once the panel installation was completed I began the installation of the roof top wiring.
Being that the panels were 275 watts at basically 24 volts I decided to use #10 wire from the panels down to the circuit breakers. Being that most of this wire was going be exposed I chose to use two conductor SOOW cord.
The panels were going to be wired in parallel so this meant six wire home runs coming through the roof in the garage. In order to facilitate the roof penetration I decided to use a standard 7 hole NEMA 3 junction box and ½” weather tight cord connectors (all from Home Depot) to accomplish this task. The junction box needed to be modified with a much larger seventh hole, a 2 ½” hole to be exact.
Here’s a few pics
And here’s a close up of the mount. I used a ¼” clevis pin as the hinge pin. The hairpins were installed once the wiring was completed.
Once the panel installation was completed I began the installation of the roof top wiring.
Being that the panels were 275 watts at basically 24 volts I decided to use #10 wire from the panels down to the circuit breakers. Being that most of this wire was going be exposed I chose to use two conductor SOOW cord.
The panels were going to be wired in parallel so this meant six wire home runs coming through the roof in the garage. In order to facilitate the roof penetration I decided to use a standard 7 hole NEMA 3 junction box and ½” weather tight cord connectors (all from Home Depot) to accomplish this task. The junction box needed to be modified with a much larger seventh hole, a 2 ½” hole to be exact.
Here’s a few pics
