solar project starting to come togeather.
Parts have started showing up for me to install solar on my camper. what I am planing is one 325 watt 120cell split panel on the roof, feeding a Renogy Rover 40 amp solar charge controler feeding t...
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Hi Steve,
For everything that goes on my TC's roof I use either Dicor or butyl tape under the mounting surface (depends if I expect to remove it or not) and Dicor over the mounting bracket and over the screw heads. I don't personally think that it is necessary to put Dicor inside the screw holes.
As long as you mount the charge controller in the orientation specified by Renogy, a closet should be fine. The controller will get warm, but not hot. Keep in mind that you want to keep the wires from the panels to the controller as short as possible. I don't know how long your cable-run is, but I'd consider 10ga to be the bare minimum... same goes for the wires from the controller to the batteries.
I do have to ask why you are going with the lead acid GC2 batteries???
A single 100A LiFePO4 battery from LifeBlue or BattleBorn will give you the same usable capacity, faster charging & discharging, and be 1/4 the weight of the two GC2's.
Yes the LiFePO4's a expensive.... Pay now, play later :C
Cheers
-Mark
For everything that goes on my TC's roof I use either Dicor or butyl tape under the mounting surface (depends if I expect to remove it or not) and Dicor over the mounting bracket and over the screw heads. I don't personally think that it is necessary to put Dicor inside the screw holes.
As long as you mount the charge controller in the orientation specified by Renogy, a closet should be fine. The controller will get warm, but not hot. Keep in mind that you want to keep the wires from the panels to the controller as short as possible. I don't know how long your cable-run is, but I'd consider 10ga to be the bare minimum... same goes for the wires from the controller to the batteries.
I do have to ask why you are going with the lead acid GC2 batteries???
A single 100A LiFePO4 battery from LifeBlue or BattleBorn will give you the same usable capacity, faster charging & discharging, and be 1/4 the weight of the two GC2's.
Yes the LiFePO4's a expensive.... Pay now, play later :C
Cheers
-Mark
