Mounting Solar Panels To Van Roof

Right when we finished installing everything we realized that we did not.

Mounting solar panels to van roof.

Mounting solar panels to the roof of a van. Most solar panels are designed to sit on the roof of a house not to be driving down the road at 70 miles per hour. Put the solar panels on top of your van where you d like them to be installed. The upper piece is bolted to the panels while the lower piece adjusts to sit flush on the curved van roof.

Mark the holes for drilling with a dry erase marker. The renogy kit comes with their z bracket mounting system which mounts. The most efficient way to mount panels would be at the correct angle to point them straight at the sun. The panels themselves can take much higher wind speeds but it s all in how you mount them to the roof.

Attach brackets to the solar panels. The typical solar panel is mounted with a z bracket which is simple and flat but we elected to go with a curved z bracket which is specifically made for a curved roof like a van. 3 relocate the brackets in the inside edge. The curved z brackets are two separate sliding pieces.

I had the general idea of where i. It s important to dry fit everything first to see how it looks on. Once you ve got the solar panels placed where they re going to. What we used to mount our solar panels step 1.

How we installed the solar panels on our van 1 test the setup before the installation. How to install renogy solar panels text edition 1.