fpoole wrote:
wow no problem on brevity, I hate using the phone too, so that's great...
I was looking to upgrade my panels, 4 x 180 and only saw the 200s which should fit, but heck, now I'll look for the 360w, heheh, Yikes... never have to much power..
Thanks, no need to hurry on any reply, wait till you get to the laptop as I do.. cheers..
Yep... I much prefer a proper keyboard to elaborate with.
Most residential panels are rougly 40x66" - and you'll find those panels range from 250W up to around 400W. We have that size panel in a 325W variant on our fifth wheel, and a newer version in a 360W variant on the truck camper. If you can stretch to a 40x78" commercial panel, you can get even more power in the same width. 5 panels * 40" = 200" of panels, or 16.6'. We went with the 66" panels so we had room to walk on either side of them for maintenance purposes.
The rack is all aluminum with stainless hardware, and mounted through the roof using around a hundred molly bolts because there isn't much to grab onto up there. It's also tied into the AC chassis and luggage rack for additional anchor points.
