About to drill through the roof to mount solar panels- tips?

Tamnative wrote:

mlts22 wrote:
For people who use the fridge vent, would I have to use plenum rated cable because it is being routed what is pretty much a chimney flue?

I used a length of conduit to run my wire,more for the ease of running it than fire though.

You do not run the wires down the flue. The area has room to run the wires down the side of the cavity. Restrain them with cable ties.

I would run each panels individual wires from the panels to the rear of the fridge area. There I would combine the + and - leads, then run larger wire to your solar controller. If anything happens to one panel you can quickly isolate by disconnecting one panel right there in the fridge access area.

My solar install link

A picture from my thread.


There are lot's of great solar install threads that are all linked in the TC university projects etc:

TC university, scroll down to Solar installs

Jim