565w of Solar (on a 170" Sprinter van rooftop)

Back to table of contents

Our photo album with tons of our pictures

These links are the most inspiring ones I’ve found for explaining van / rv electric systems:

• The Faroutride.com folks
• Gary, the builditsolar fellow

Parts

• 2 small panels: 100w Renogy Eclipse Panels
• 1 big panel: 365w LG Panel… ordered through a local Pratt electric
• 2 x 20-amp fuses, one for each parallel circuit (2 Renogy panels go in series, and subsequently in parallel with the LG)… the voltages are close enough for this
• 1 x 50' of 10-awg PV wire
• Renogy connectors (to make parallel connections)
• Cable gland
• MPPT Charge controller
• 80/20… 3 x 46" transverse rails from 8020.net and then 2 extra longitudinal ones to frame the large LG to make sure it’s nicely supported… 66" or so seemed like a large span to span with a residential panel
• Brackets… black, 3 pairs, two round, one square. Kind of a steep price, but saves me running around for a lot of hardware and looks grade A.
• 40-amp breaker switch before MPPT

Hein’s black-anodized brackets

Should end up looking like this, but repeated 2x and with the LG appearing much longer

Probably actually going to put the Renogy panels in front, but… you get the idea

The 80/20 bars

Back to table of contents