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Ok, I went off.the deep end? Bought 3 used 37watt uni-solar panels and a blue sky 2000e controller for the hefty price of $400, They were being listed as 75w panels, they are not The tested open...
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Spent all day Sunday working on the install of the other two panels
Man I'm exhausted, they are mounted, but not connected
Removing the old panels was really hard, the mounting brackets did not want to come off the roof, if you want something to be permanent just use 3M marine polyurethane to glue or seal it to the roof
It was a time consuming chore to remove them with out ripping the rubber roof to pieces ( rubber roof was an add-on by the first owner )
Even though I reused the brackets they had to be moved because the new panels are a different width
Then clean all the mount areas, then patch/cover all the screw holes and little cuts/tears ( with eternabond ) used pieces big enough to cover the complete area of each previous mount/bracket
You guys who went the uni strut route did the right thing, building a rack system, much easier to service and or change things up
I did use nut serts on the new panels for the brackets, and a Lot less 3M on the bottom of the mounted brackets around the screws
Man I'm exhausted, they are mounted, but not connected
Removing the old panels was really hard, the mounting brackets did not want to come off the roof, if you want something to be permanent just use 3M marine polyurethane to glue or seal it to the roof
It was a time consuming chore to remove them with out ripping the rubber roof to pieces ( rubber roof was an add-on by the first owner )
Even though I reused the brackets they had to be moved because the new panels are a different width
Then clean all the mount areas, then patch/cover all the screw holes and little cuts/tears ( with eternabond ) used pieces big enough to cover the complete area of each previous mount/bracket
You guys who went the uni strut route did the right thing, building a rack system, much easier to service and or change things up
I did use nut serts on the new panels for the brackets, and a Lot less 3M on the bottom of the mounted brackets around the screws
