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Fisherguy
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Jul 28, 2015

Solar panels, how high should they be above the roof

Hope to mount my panels this weekend, making brackets out of aluminium angle, how high should they be above the rubber roof? Most commercial brackets seem to have them 1" high, would 2" be better, he...
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Fisherguy
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Jul 29, 2015
On another note, I'm hoping you guys subscribed to this thread...

The Tristar 45 pwm controller has a 'battery sense' connection. The output of the controller will be connected to the output of my inverter which is connected to the battery by 7 ft of 4 ga, is the battery sense connection really necessary?

It sounds like they'd prefer a twisted pair, 16 to 24 ga connected right to the battery, what type of cable do people use?

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