Trailer Electrical Ground/Frame and Solar
The negative terminal of the battery goes to the frame via 6ga wire. And I think the AC ground goes to the frame when we're not off-grid. I'll wire the MPPT controller with two 6ga wires going to...
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pianotuna wrote:
Hi,
I'd be most interested to know what panels you chose to go with the Rogue!
Whatever I could pickup locally that were max ~32" wide and reasonably high voltage (>40V) and reasonably priced.
Ended up with two of these 195W panels (Can$175 ea)) in parallel: SPM195 which are the "Sunny Power" brand (from China obviously).
The folks at 2Solar in Markham ON were great to work with. Fed us candy while the panels were packed in my car. Also got my 10ga MC4 cables there.
The Rogue could handle more watts, but my trailer couldn't take anything wider than 32", and I didn't want anything heavier anyway. I've heard of Canadian Solar 205W, 32" wide panels but was told they aren't available in Ontario, so 195W was the best I could come up with.
We'll see how the "Sunny Power" ones hold up ...
Was thinking about getting the 20A Rogue, but really wanted the fancier display. If you add the remote display to the 20A, it's getting close in price to the 30A, so went that way. To be honest, there's other MPPT controllers out there are cheaper and probably would have been good enough. But I'm a sucker for quality electronics, especially when they're designed and made in the Oregon woods.
