Here are pictures of the solar panels on my RV. I placed the panel mounts where the screws are under the panels, in a typical rain they should stay dry, or at least only a little wet. Some have reported that the EPDM roof material has 'blown up' (a air bubble between the roof and under the EPDM) on their RV's (without reporting that they have solar panels installed on the RV) and should this happen to a RV with the type of mount you are suggesting, the blown up EPDM would not hold the solar panels for long, they would tear away a chunk of EPDM material, and land on the ground behind the RV as it is driving down the freeway!
Golden_HVAC wrote:
rickthescot wrote:
Sounds like a great idea. I guess asking for pictures again is not going to persuade you though. We are visual creatures and I don't think 1000 words will accomplish what one image will. You can do it, just one pic.
More pictures that I took a few days ago to post pictures of my solar panels, and their mounts. Some pictures are really close up pictures of the solar panel mounts, and give a clear picture of howrough the surface is.
Golden_HVAC wrote:
Hi,
This is my front pair of panels. 120 watt mounted on a curved roof, 102" wide.
This is the mount it is held on with three rivets into the frame, and then the bottom half is 6" long aluminum, with nutsert in the upper piece, bolt you can not see from the outside edge pointing inward.
This picture shows the bigfoot panel mount sold by RvSolarElectric for $35 a set back in 1994. I wonder what they cost today?
This picture shows the panels tilted while I was working on the roof.
Fred.
My panel mounts allow air under the panels, and as you can see the tilt arms are easy to install, and can tilt the panels to 45 degrees easy.
The 'Bigfoot' panel mounts 'could' be mounted by gluing them to the EPDM roof or a fiberglass roof. However I have both rubber roof sealant and 4 screws holding each mount to the roof. Then I coated the whole roof with a sealant to cover over the EPDM that at 14 years old was washing away off the motorhome.
The other mounts are simple. 6" long 2" angle aluminum. 3 holes for #10 screws into the roof, and 5/16" hole for a tamper resistant bolt into the panel, with Nylo locking nut to frustrate any would be theft!
