Wire management

[Bluedog225]

Would anybody be willing to show how they handled their solar panel wires as they leave the array and enter a box/conduit system?

I’m putting up a big unistrut and pipe array. I’m looking for how to bring all my solar panel wires together into a bundle, and then into some kind of box. It seems like I’ll just have a big bundle of wires and need to get them through a gland into the bottom of the box. Once I’m in a box, I can run conduit of some type to the battery/inverter area.

I haven’t paid attention to this detail and all my solutions look messy.

thanks

 

[seneysolar]

Right or wrong this is how i do it on pole mounts. I use Midnite/Heyco cable grommets into the bottom of the combiner box for each string. Assuming you have enough knockouts for each string. I like them because you can tighten them down for strain relief and the wires wont be pulling on the breakers.

 

[bestconcreteblock]

Maybe a weather head like this?

 

[timselectric]

Yup, a weather head is the right way.

 

[NC_hydro]

Would anybody be willing to show how they handled their solar panel wires as they leave the array and enter a box/conduit system?

I’m putting up a big unistrut and pipe array. I’m looking for how to bring all my solar panel wires together into a bundle, and then into some kind of box. It seems like I’ll just have a big bundle of wires and need to get them through a gland into the bottom of the box. Once I’m in a box, I can run conduit of some type to the battery/inverter area.

I haven’t paid attention to this detail and all my solutions look messy.

thanks

I'll be tackling the same thing in the next couple months with my adjustable unistrut array.

 

[hogback]

Recent install for friend used an ell as a makeshift weatherhead. Conduit is running up one side of gable roof and ell was at ridge, so there is an inverted v there so to speak.