Killed my solar panels.......
Just finished what seemed to be a week-long rewire of my TT; installing solar panels and tidying up a few issues that have bugged me since we bought it. I used black and white wire to run from the pa...
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Just a quick rehash of my OP to re-center the thread.
Wire coloring is irrelevant. I used my own system based on the red (+),black (-) automotive standard. I strayed from this system. That is what caused the problem.
At this point the controller is in the garage and shows the same set of lights using a battery charger as input and no load as it did on the panels with no load. It has two completely intact 40A auto type blade fuses soldered to the board.
As I said before, the controller is in the garage. Voltage across the raw output of the panels on this bright sunny morning was .32V
The panels, not the controller, are injured.
I cannot see any damage to any of the visible connections on the face of the panels themselves.
My original question was ' Are there any fuses in those little black boxes on the back?'. General opinion seems to suggest not. I guess I'll just have to look.
I may or may not have time in the next two days to pull the panels before I'm gone for two weeks but I will get back with the results as soon as I get any.
Wire coloring is irrelevant. I used my own system based on the red (+),black (-) automotive standard. I strayed from this system. That is what caused the problem.
At this point the controller is in the garage and shows the same set of lights using a battery charger as input and no load as it did on the panels with no load. It has two completely intact 40A auto type blade fuses soldered to the board.
As I said before, the controller is in the garage. Voltage across the raw output of the panels on this bright sunny morning was .32V
The panels, not the controller, are injured.
I cannot see any damage to any of the visible connections on the face of the panels themselves.
My original question was ' Are there any fuses in those little black boxes on the back?'. General opinion seems to suggest not. I guess I'll just have to look.
I may or may not have time in the next two days to pull the panels before I'm gone for two weeks but I will get back with the results as soon as I get any.
