trevor.aaron
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Hi there, looking for some helpful tips and advice for a dual solar panel setup, one fixed to the roof of our Camper Van, and one portable, so we can move it into the sun when we need to.
Question - Will this plan work, and are there any pitfalls we should be aware of? If this plan won't work, what would you recommend?
Plan - Mount one panel to our camper van via wiring them into an extension cable (Windy Nation PV cables with a MC4 connectors). When we want to add the second panel, we wire it in parallel by disconnecting the fixed panel from the Windy Nation extension cable, and add a branch connector which then has both the fixed panel, and the portable panel, all coming into the branch connector that then runs into the extension cable all the way to the Victron Charge Controller.
Setup:
Two solar panels, 100W (12 volt extremely flexible monocrystalline)
Victron Charge Controller (100/30)
Windy Nation 10AWG PV cable, with a 15A inline fuse for each panel
BougeRV Solar Branch Connectors (best I could find online.... I want to get Renogy ones when they come back in stock)
Thanks in advance for your help!
Question - Will this plan work, and are there any pitfalls we should be aware of? If this plan won't work, what would you recommend?
Plan - Mount one panel to our camper van via wiring them into an extension cable (Windy Nation PV cables with a MC4 connectors). When we want to add the second panel, we wire it in parallel by disconnecting the fixed panel from the Windy Nation extension cable, and add a branch connector which then has both the fixed panel, and the portable panel, all coming into the branch connector that then runs into the extension cable all the way to the Victron Charge Controller.
Setup:
Two solar panels, 100W (12 volt extremely flexible monocrystalline)
Victron Charge Controller (100/30)
Windy Nation 10AWG PV cable, with a 15A inline fuse for each panel
BougeRV Solar Branch Connectors (best I could find online.... I want to get Renogy ones when they come back in stock)
Thanks in advance for your help!