Solar panel

[altech]

Hi Guys, I had this solar panel that bought from Jaycar to charge a car battery that I was using for my UHF radio at home as base station ,but now I have put uhf radio in my D1 as I have posted be4, anyway getting back to the solar panel ,thinking I setup it up on truck some how ,hmmm
put on roof ,well no doesn't look good,hmmm as was setting at the back with door open ,look up and saw that rounded roof window ,put panel on inside of it and what do you no it fits between top & bottom egdes, put 2 top screws to mount ,check volts with meter ,yep 12V .happy with that and it looks good ,then hard wired it to lighter socket near back rear door.
? : is good to this day time charging battery ,knowing that it a small charge anyway ..

cheers4now alex

[DEFENDERZOOK]

<span style="color:blue">is that lighter socket connected to power all the time...?
or does it only work when the ignition is on accessories.....</span>

[altech]

[quote=DEFENDERZOOK]<span style="color:blue">is that lighter socket connected to power all the time...?
or does it only work when the ignition is on accessories.....</span>

yes the power on full time ....

[YRVGreen]

was curious where other people mount there pannels, could you take some pics of your install for us?
is there clearance for the people sitting in the back?

[altech]

Originally posted by YRVGreen
was curious where other people mount there pannels, could you take some pics of your install for us?
is there clearance for the people sitting in the back?


far as putting pics ,haven't work out how to put them up on my post and far as head room there plenty as the panel fits inbetween the inside of the curved glass

cheers alex :-)

[hiline]

Originally posted by altech+--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(altech)</div><div class='quotemain'><!--QuoteBegin-YRVGreen
was curious where other people mount there pannels, could you take some pics of your install for us?
is there clearance for the people sitting in the back?


far as putting pics ,haven't work out how to put them up on my post and far as head room there plenty as the panel fits inbetween the inside of the curved glass

cheers alex :-)[/b][/quote]

e-mail me the pics if you want

i can post them for you

e-mail address at bottom of post https://www.aulro.com/afvb/ :wink:

[hiline]

here you go boys https://www.aulro.com/afvb/ https://www.aulro.com/afvb/ https://www.aulro.com/afvb/

http://www.aulro.com/albums/album119/solar_panel_1.jpg

http://www.aulro.com/albums/album119/solar_panel_2.jpg

http://www.aulro.com/albums/album119/solar_panel_3.jpg

http://www.aulro.com/albums/album119/solar_panel_4.jpg

[weeds]

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE</div><div class='quotemain'>was curious where other people mount there pannels, could you take some pics of your install for us?
is there clearance for the people sitting in the back?[/b][/quote]

i put my solar panel here
http://www.aulro.com/albums/album271/Solar_panel_on_vehicle.thumb.jpg

not the best photo

[AnthonyQLD]

Very nice weeds

[crump]

Hey Weeds, what would be a rough weight on a panel that size???

[weeds]

Originally posted by crump
Hey Weeds, what would be a rough weight on a panel that size???

9.17kg

http://www.prometheusenergy.com/pdfs/us_specs.pdf

[YRVGreen]

does it fold or have somthing protective on it,
how does it hold up to beating from low hanging sticks, and hail, big bugs and such?

[weeds]

Originally posted by YRVGreen
does it fold or have somthing protective on it,
how does it hold up to beating from low hanging sticks, and hail, big bugs and such?

Hi YRVGreen

The solar panels main purpose was to be a wind defelector for my simpson.

It is hindged and I can raise it for when the sun is low in the sky, If its late in the day I normally park the rig facing the east and raise the panelso that it gets the fist sun in the morning.

I don't know the technical name fot the plastic that the panel is made out off buts its pretty tough, my oldest boy has hit it numerous times with the footy. I have driven through the bush with low branches with no problem.

I under the impression the the material the unisolar panel is made out of is tougher than the bp panel.

its been on the roof for 15000kms with no problems so far. I have just brought a second panel for the van.

I would be confident it would hold up in a hail storm, as for rocks well I'm on my second windscreen in twelve months with a nice stone chip right in my vision in the current screen, the solar panel would deflect rocks much better than the defender windscreen.

[YRVGreen]

Very impressive, one that size should happily run a small fridge for quite some time,

[hook]

Small 5 or 10 watt for trickleing batterys,
I going to put two on my sun vissor (above windscreen), one for each battery.

[YRVGreen]

thats a good idea hook, as you would be useing them to block the sun, may aswell get free power from it,

[stevo]

like the idea for the disco I have a deep cycle mounted in the rear to run fridge and looking at doing the cape this year when I get laid off from work