Solar combiner box.
Anyone have some pics or links to a DIY solar panel roof mounted combiner box? My solar is acting up and not charging, I think its the quick connects coming off the panels to the main line on the r...
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Optimistic Paranoid wrote:Muddydogs wrote:
Thats what I have now on the roof. When you wiggle the connectors I get 14.4 volts when not wiggling them I get 12.3 which is what the battery's are charged to.
I suspect that if you unhooked them and gave them a thorough cleaning with DeOxit, your problems would go away.
DeOxit
I was first turned on to this stuff by an electrical guru I knew. It's worked wonderfully well every time I've used it.
BTW, you know you need a special (inexpensive) tool to disassemble MC4 connectors, right?
I'm sure I could clean them but there's always the next time they don't work and my trailer roof is a long ways up with no ladder to access it. I would much rather take the connectors out of the equation and do it right. Plus adding a third panel will complicate the connectors needed.
A tool would be nice I'm sure but I just did it with my fingers, didn't know I wasn't supposed to be able to without the tool.
