Solar Wire Management

allen8106 wrote:
For those of you who have installed solar on your RV I would be interested in hearing what you have done with the rooftop wire management issue.

I'll have four panels with two #10 wires each needing to run between 10-14 feet to the combiner box so a total of eight #10 wires to manage. Outside of the obvious "conduit" answer what have you done to manage these wires? I'm planning on a tilt option so any wire management scheme needs to consider this issue.

Thanks in advance for your inputs.

What four panels and what controller??? Your first limit is the total Voc intake for the controller in its specs.

That says whether you can have your panels in series (added Voc) or not. You might have to go series-parallel to stay under the controller's Voc limit.

NOW you can plan your wiring layout. The Dicor every so often along the way to keep the wires from flapping in the wind while driving makes good sense to me. But Mex makes a good point about ever changing things afterwards during say, an upgrade or a failure of a component. ( I have no experience with that yet, but just got a Class C, so might be going the roof route--not sure yet)