Or you can use a ready made image: https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/61v-jOK3c2L._AC_SL1000_.jpg
Still gotta put it on a sign or a decal for the pannels... or somethingOr you can use a ready made image: https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/61v-jOK3c2L._AC_SL1000_.jpg
At least a cable will keep the honest, honestI find cabling the panels priceless not for theft prevention but to keep them from blowing away.
I made my own cables with 1/8” cable bought by the foot at Home Depot, and a Thimble on each end. The thimble is just a fancy name for the loop the lock will fit around. I bought as water tool to crimp it all. I also put some heat shrink where I cut the cable to make it look neat. I have two of these 20’ long each.
I built them to keep the panels from being stolen, but found the first trip I used them on, they saved my panels from blowing across the parking lot. Of the five trips and two different places I’ve been, most nights the wind gets strong enough to blow a portable panel away. Now before I got sleep, I lay the panels flat and make sure they are not tilted, but winds of 25 gusting to 35 will blow them away and I find them dangling on the cables.
I have not come up with a good way to secure portable panels to the ground to keep them from blowing away. There are some methods, but they are just not worth the effort for a two or three night trip.
Lately, I’ve taken to putting them away at night. The weather forecasts are not that great. I guess the places I tend to go are in valleys at the the border of the mountains and plains with a lake, and there’s not a weather station nearby that covers the microcllimate I find myself in.
Still, I’m not at the RV all the time and the cabling is now more to keep my panels anchored in case the wind picks up when I’m away for a few hours.
Having a hungry mountain lion searching for a meal within the fence is surely a fair defence against thieves...I did see one mountain lion that shows an interest in solar technology,
Problem becomes.... the panels don't charge the TT batt very well, if I don't leave the panels with the TT.If you are gone for any length of time, the thief has all the time they need to get past your best efforts. The pony way to be certain is to take them with you.
Who cares if you have a plate # Its """GPS""" and with there app you can find it in "real" time.If nobody is there to hear the alarm, what’s the point?
Just insall a white Tile (GPS) on the panel.
Are you kidding me? I left a tile protected device in a hotel 5 hours from my home. tracking showed that it was still at the hotel. One phone call and it was shipped back to me.Thought this would be a good idea until I saw it's only a 400 ft range.
Are you kidding me? I left a tile protected device in a hotel 5 hours from my home. tracking showed that it was still at the hotel. One phone call and it was shipped back to me.