Van Solar Panel Setup

The first thing we did was mount our solar panels to our van s roof and wire them together in parallel using a signstek y branch wiring connector.

Van solar panel setup.

More current which requires thicker wires or smaller wire gauge size and larger current for mppt controller to handle. Our main 335w panel is an lg panel. So far this 445 watt solar panel setup combined with the alternator has worked perfectly. Installing a solar panel kit on your camper van or rv should follow the same steps as installing rigid solar panels listed above.

What van conversion solar equipment do we use. I was lucky to inherit two 100w solar panels with the van they just need to be wired in. Given excellent conditions a. Inline 30a mc4 fuse you can find this on no products found.

Do not hook up your solar panels to the charge controller until the batteries are connected. This is all you need for your basic solar panel installation. Van solar panels came in a variety of wattages but most vanlifers use multiple 100w panels for their systems. Without solar panels your van s system will be useless.

However a parallel setup has a different set of issues. In two months we haven t had to plug in a single time and i haven t seen my battery voltage drop below 12 4 which is about 75 full. Solar generators before closing out we d like to give a quick mention to solar generators. Isolator switch you can find this on.

The first thing you need to do is attach the z brackets to the solar panels so that you can securely attach them to the roof. The panels themselves are easy to install and the entire guide to installing solar panels can be found on renogy s website. For a parallel setup this is not the case. Our support panel is a 100w panel from giosolar panel you can find this on amazon.

If any panel is partly blocked the efficiency of the solar setup drops to the level of the least efficient panel in the setup. For parallel wiring all the positive wires go together and all the negative wires go together. I used an external waterproof junction box mounted on the roof of the to take the panel cables into the van via compression glands and then into the mppt solar controller charger mppt30 solar charger bad choice in hindsight see last section of this post.