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Re: cable routing for solar - vent pipe or drill roof?
westend wrote: Nice job on the box! I like what you did with the cover extending over the controller, good design! Thanks! austinjenna wrote: Excellent job on making that box. I am not as crafty so mine would have been some old amazon box covered in duct tape. Yours is almost as good Thanks! Making boxes is actually pretty easy if you have a table saw and a pocket hole jig. Weatherproofing wood isn't that hard either - epoxy topped with a good exterior paint does the trick. Duct tape over the old amazon box is a great idea except good duct tape an't cheap :S Looks like I may have to wait a while to get the panels mounted - forecast says solid rain for at least the next week.1.2KViews0likes0Comments- 421Views0likes0Comments
Re: cable routing for solar - vent pipe or drill roof?
Thanks everyone! I hadn't considered running beside the vent pipe - that's a great idea! BTW - As I mentioned, I had to build a custom battery box since none of the commercially available boxes would fit. While a metal box was my first choice, I don't have a sheer or a brake large enough to work with material that size - and due to the tight fit I didn't want to pay a shop and then keep going back for mods when it didn't quite fit. So I made the box out of Baltic ply, saturated it with expoxy, covered it in fiberglass, and painted it with exterior paint. Should hold up fine. Here is the box with the lid off - And lid on -1.2KViews0likes0Commentscable routing for solar - vent pipe or drill roof?
Hello Everyone, First post here. I'm sure this has been asked before and I did search but came up empty..... I'm installing solar on my 2011 Eclipse Milan 25RKS TT. I've already built a custom enclosure for my dual AGM batteries and wired up the MPPT controller, breakers, fuses, disconnects, etc (I'll add some photos if I can figure out how), but the one remaining task is to route the cables from the roof to the controller. My fridge is near the rear of the trailer, so that isn't an option, and unless I want to tack conduit to the outside of my trailer (yuck), I'm looking at one of the following: 1. Use the grey water vent pipe. This comes out under the bathroom sink and is conveniently next to where all the electrical comes up from under the trailer - so I wouldn't need to cut a new hole in the bottom of the trailer. It would also keep the wiring out of site and away from storage areas. My concern is fishing the wire out of the pipe and sealing the hole well enough to prevent a smelly trailer. 2. Drill the roof over the bedroom closet. Straight forward and shortest cable run, but the closet is over the main storage bay - so wires would run through the storage bay (to get under the trailer) and would be a snag point for loading/unloading the storage area. The closet is also quite narrow and I'm sure the wires would be visible no matter how well I tried to conceal them. Anyone had experience with the vent pipe method? Other options I should consider? Ideas for dealing with the wires through the storage bay? Thanks! Mark11KViews0likes21Comments
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