So we’ve installed the first two of the hundred watt solar panels. I’ve, got 16 to install, so I put two down and we use scuba weights to weight them down and put six flex on the back. We were just gonna work, our way across the deck and get them installed.
[, Music ]. They’re, the holes for the entry into the stainless steel. I’m using the stainless steel arch support as a Condit for all my sore panel wires to go down and they go down and they go down into the our starboard head, headliner in our starboard aft cabin and then from there.
They go forward down into the batteries [ Music, ], [, Music ]. Are you done on there yeah installing the SI Marines shot 501 SC 501 shot? I’ve hooked. I’ve got all the battery going from the batteries and the main bus bar I & # 39.
Ve ran the cables all the way to here. This is going to be my main solar charger controller area. So my array, my 1800 watt array, will feed down through the hard top down this location. Here then they will go into a thermal breaker.
So I can isolate my array and shut electricity off and come in from there to the solar charge controller from the thermal coupler or the thermal breaker. They go into my three smart solar charge controllers from those three solar charge controllers.
They go over to a terminal bus and then from the terminal brass on the negative side. It goes through that SI marine SC 501 shunt and into the batteries, so I’ll, be able to see everything on my si marine controller.
I’m, a Pico what’s going to coming in from my solar and what’s coming in from the battery batteries and everything, because the way I wear this, if I ever add or I expand the solar, I’ll, never have to go back to the batteries I can come directly to here.
I can have another controller in this Bay and everything’s already wired. I put heavy enough gauge wire or heavy enough everything to go back to the battery, so I never have to touch any of the heavy stuff.
Again I just can come straight to the controllers. Add another controller. Add another thermal thermal breaker and I’m in business and everything is already wired to go through the SI Marine shot. It’s very simple, and that’s.
What we got going today, cool projects – almost food – is here one more solar panel to put in now just have trim the wine, and I am finished. So these are the scan strip, deck lands that I got in and they’re, real small.
This is the cover this goes inside of here. The wire goes through and down and what you basically do is you mount that to the top of the whatever you’re going through it, put this little pad underneath it seal you screw that down, and then they have different sizes of glands that You can put on the wires, you just size that and then they have enough blanks.
So you can drill your own hole and have your own seal grommet sill. There you put that in into the declan and the wires on the end it just snaps over and then there’s, a screw that goes in the back and Allen or in screwed over them back and tightens it down, and it’S really simple, clean and waterproof.
I like them, [ Music, ], alright guys. So this is our solar panel. It’s complete now I & # 39. Ve got 1400 watts of solar up here on the top day and, as you can see it’s. A nice clean install up here.
We use the scan strut, DSH 6 declan’s, to go straight through the hole and the reason I chose those is because they’re small enough, where I have limited space, where I can run the the deck land all the way Out to the edges like a nice, it goes all the way out to the edge, because that’s, where I had to run the wire through the bottom of the deck.
So those worked out really well. I was also able to group a bunch of them together where, if I had a bigger deck land that could only hold one or two or three cables there, wouldn’t have been the room up in those places to run the to run a Different kind of deck glance, so the scan, strut deck glance worked out really good for us.
As you can see the solar panel, it’s, nice and clean those are lay down and walk on solar panels. The way I wired, the solar panels is, let’s. Take these 200 water’s right here. The two I’m standing on right here.
Those are wired in a series and then those go down to the terminal bar and two more like these two are wired in a series and those then get wired parallel into a terminal bar down there, and I did that with one two three.
So six one hundred waters are wired in series here and then in parallel down there on a terminal bar – and I did that with all of them, so that I could spread out the shading from the boom and mash shading, and I it’s.
It’s, a it’s, a floating compromise, to compromise on how to wire that the best way to get the best results and that’s. What we ended up doing so our solar panels put out about 25 to 30 amps an hour during the peak part of the days.
Sometimes I get 35 and I’ll, get that for six to seven to eight hours a day. They work really good. They’re good walk-on panels and you know, obviously you don’t want to be wearing hard shoes or anything like that out here.
I’m, not recommending the panel’s yet because I don’t know I don’t know how they’re gonna hold up over time. So I don’t want to give a recommendation whether I like the panels, are not so far. They’re working good there.
They’re 18 20 volt panels. So, together in a series, there are 40 volts and they all wire up, and it was real, easy to install them and they can kind of take a little bit of an angle when you’re, laying them down flat and they’Re simple to install, I’ve, never done that before it was real, simple wasn’t very complicated.
A complicated thing was trying to figure out how to wire in a series in parallel and and some people we know – are real good at that kind of stuff and they kind of helped me through some of the math and understanding that.
But once you get that it’s, pretty simple and if a redneck like me can do it and you guys can do it too once again, guys thanks for watching, if you like what you’re, seeing please hit the subscribe button And we look forward to seeing you guys out there [ Music ], you
