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Bert_the_Welder
Aug 17, 2020Explorer II
Vintage465 wrote:Bert the Welder wrote:
Anyone have their charging/control system built in, like it would be from the factory, but instead of having your panels roof mounted with cables running through the camper and through holes in the roof, you have the cables loose and have the panels free to move around your site to chase the sun? Cables acting like a long ext. cord. Perhaps the cables hooked up to a pig tail in one of the exterior storage cabinets or ?. And I don't mean one of those all-in-one systems like Jackery(sp?)
Thanks!
Regarding Holes in the roof......Based on your user name, assuming you're a welder, I will assume you are also a craftsmen. With the high quality materials that are available now days and the likely-hood that you are better craftsman than the people who built the trailer...with the smallest amount of research, you can do a better job than they ever did at the factory. I recommend steering away from factory installed set ups and factory pre-wired solar(ready for solar). In my opinion, waste of money. I totally re-did my factory installed solar that worked OK at best, now works amazing.....in my opinion.
While good at being creative ( I make sculptures and ornamental stuff) isn't a problem. My rather bad dyslexia is a big wall when it comes to technical stuff. The system would have to be done by others. ( an additional problem being finding someone that is competent as there's no one here on the island that I know of) So it would be a mod to a stock system (Looking at a new N. Lite or Bigfoot) or a custom build and installed by someone else.
My DIY brain bristles at the thought of trusting someone else, but I know that, given the expenses of forking up rather pricey equipment and/or the new TC, I should not DIY it. Not to mention the mental toll the frustration would take on me.
Thanks for replying!
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