Help! My solar panels aren't working!

[beemerphile1]

Do you think it could be the snow covering? :B A couple more weeks and we can head south.

On a serious note - do you ground your solar panels? I noticed they have an attachment for a ground wire on the frame but I didn't see the point.

[BFL13]

I do not ground the panels for the Rv whether attached on the roof or whether they are on a contraption on the ground away from the RV on longer wires.

The solar controller is not grounded to the RV frame either. Some are plastic so can't be chassis grounded, others are metal and can be. But some are "positive grounded " controllers, which confuses things.

Doesn't matter if they are "positive grounded" controllers or not, just don't ground them to the RV frame, and everything works great.

[bpounds]

beemerphile1 wrote:


On a serious note - do you ground your solar panels? I noticed they have an attachment for a ground wire on the frame but I didn't see the point.

Ground mounted, yes. RV, no.