17' Series Running Sola wires

[23chris]

Hi all me again.

I am looking at mounting 2 150 watt panels to the van and am after as much info as I can before I start drilling holes, I want to run the twin cable from roof to the battery how have you ran the cables from the battery up walls and across the roof line and through the roof?
its a 12 17.56-2 OB

Cheers Chris

 

[dagree]

@23chris When fitting our winegaurd aerial it was fed through the roof and down the "pockets" in the poptop skirt into a cupboard and then into some square wall conduit (with capping) down the wall. Also installed the wifi aerial cable through the same.


Cable coming through the roof and into the skirt "pockets"



Square conduit can be seen behind the 240V GPO

Guessing you would be able to feed the solar cables the same way?

 

[Base23]

I used a clipsal junction box on the roof as per the factory fitted panel. Stuck it to the roof with skiaflex 291.
Run cable through roof cavity and up in to the factory junction box to join to the panels together.

Se here for more info

Extra 120 watt solar panel fitted over the weekend,
made 4 brackets from alloy angle and fitted to roof with sikaflex 291 and peel rivetsat one end and screws into roof beam the other end,

brackets made from 40 x 25 x 1.6 aluminum angle
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Peel rivets
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Added extra junction under new solar panel and ran cabling through roof cavity and up in to existing junction box as I did not like the look of the cabling just lying on the roof.

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Cables joined in parallel at original junction box
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Extra panel all fitted, Looks Factory

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Note junction box under panel
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Cheers