Solar Panel Project

Yeti plus wrote:
#1nobby,
I have 3 of those panels, also bought on sale at CTC. I have them paralleled together. I made my own 3 to 1 adapter with plug sets from Princess Auto, because they are 10 gauge wire. We have used them a few times when we didn't have power and they were great. I bought a different controller from Amazon that has a digital display, and my batteries were fully charged.
I would set up the panels in the morning and reposition them at lunch time if we were back to the camper.
One word of warning about the SAE connectors. Coleman wires all their plugs the same way, but they are not the same as battery charger manufacturers. I happen to have a couple of small battery tenders that came with various adapters to charge different batteries. I happened to use one of these adapters with the solar charge controller playing with the system before putting it into use.I tried all 3 controllers , bought a larger controller from CTC, couldn't get it to work, because the output was reversed due to the adapter from the charger. I had already ordered the charge controller from Amazon and when it arrived and I wired it up all was good with the world.Then I looked at the way the Coleman controllers were wired and the output wiring was backward to the output wiring I used for the Amazon controller.So you may need that gender changer plug you ordered.
I just wish we could get those Grape Solar panels from Home Depot at a reasonable price up here in Canada.
Good luck with your new toys.
Brian

Ya....I read that somewhere in the minimal research that I did.:)

I'll figure it out.

It amuses me that some of the industry got together and decided to use SAE connectors. But then decided not to keep the polarity constant.