memilanuk
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Recently sold the 30' TT and got a slide-in truck camper. The TC came with 'solar pre-wiring' from the factory... that I'm not too impressed with. Probably need to get it addressed before I continue onwards.
Basically they put a cable entry gland up on the roof, with MC4 connectors, and then ran some wires down inside an interior vertical cavity to the general area where the load center panel is, and capped them. It looks like they ran PV wire only as far as needed (about a foot or so into the cabin), then butt-spliced the PV wire to regular #10 with cheap automotive splices. Just to make it more interesting, *those* wires are also butt-spliced again about another 12-18" down, again with cheap splices, no extra head shrink, etc.
So... my questions would be: is it typical to switch from PV to regular wire using butt-splices like that? If not, what's the recommended approach? Have a terminal block and swap over there, or run the PV wire all the way to the solar charge controller? If it were yours, how would you fix it?
Thanks,
Monte
Basically they put a cable entry gland up on the roof, with MC4 connectors, and then ran some wires down inside an interior vertical cavity to the general area where the load center panel is, and capped them. It looks like they ran PV wire only as far as needed (about a foot or so into the cabin), then butt-spliced the PV wire to regular #10 with cheap automotive splices. Just to make it more interesting, *those* wires are also butt-spliced again about another 12-18" down, again with cheap splices, no extra head shrink, etc.
So... my questions would be: is it typical to switch from PV to regular wire using butt-splices like that? If not, what's the recommended approach? Have a terminal block and swap over there, or run the PV wire all the way to the solar charge controller? If it were yours, how would you fix it?
Thanks,
Monte