Re: Solar Upgrade
Reply #12 –
Especially accurate advise from Roger, and others. I would only add: Choose your suppliers of components carefully. AmSolar and Bay Marine will support you before and after your purchase for any purchase like Victron Smartsolar chargers, etc. Buying the lowest price components may in the long run not be prudent. An example is "commercial grade wire" that Roger mentioned. Much of the cheap solar wire on the internet is not uv or sun resistant and nothing more than copper plated aluminum, thus inferior and causing havoc with lengh/loss charts. I bought all my wire from AmSolar insuring it was uv/sunlight resistant, 100% copper wire. I really like their connection wire for the roof, they call Roof wire, $3.00 foot, that puts the two, neg and pos, leads in one round grey jacketed wire, makes for a clean, protected installation.
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I also remember gracerace, on our forum, strongly recommending Windy Nation I have never used them, however, they list their solar extension wire as UL approved and that it has uv/sunlight resistance.
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