wamcneil

Ok, you guys have me convinced. It's VHB for me.

I looked at the AM Solar brackets. Very nice, but they cost $80 per panel... So I got a renology tilt bracket to try out. My plan is to adapt the renology mounts: using two of the extrusions for the back of a panel and then cutting short sections of 2"x2" aluminum angle for the attachment feet.  

I realize that I will seldom, if ever tilt the panels, but this should be cheap/easy mounting and allow the option of tilting.

Cheers,

Walter

I was going to attach it, but it's 79MB and too large to attach to the thread. Just uploaded the full wiring diagram document with TOC in the files section: 

2003 Dynasty Wiring Diagrams with TOC

Thanks guys. I'm warming up to AM Solar's VHB brackets.  I was concerned that the flexing of the roof skin may be a problem for the tape. Maybe that's not the case.

Walter

Hi All,

I believe a PDF of the 2003 Dynasty Wiring Diagrams has been available in the community files for a long time. That has no table of contents (neither does my original hardcopy), so I have to page all the way through it every time I look for something...

So here's a TOC I paid my kid $20 to transcribe. 

This hasn't been thoroughly checked for errors... 

Cheers,

Walter

2003 Dynasty Wiring TOC.docx

Hi All,

I'm getting ready to replace my one original solar panel with four new ones.

The roof is a loose fiberglass skin and feels like a thin layer of thin plywood underneath. I'm thinking it would be impractical to find ribs to screw the mounts into.

Are the brackets just fastened into the plywood skin and plywood with wood screws? 

And on panel locations: the original panel is on the center-line just aft of the middle A/C. I'm planning to put one in the same location, and another immediately aft of it. These two shouldn't have much of a shading problem.

Then put two more panels on the road-side next to the front and rear A/Cs. My reasoning is that I can probably position the rig to minimize shadows if both panels are shaded the same way.

Picture attached. Does this sound like a good approach?

Thanks 

Walter