It and some wiring get installed - that's more stuff tidied up. I need a smaller panel, light and flexible for the weedy roof, I was looking earlier - 100w = 3.5kg. The roof seems quite delicately balanced and I haven't got around to plonking some weights on it, but 3.5kg isn't much.
When you glue then on, remember they might go wrong and you'd want to get them off again. i.e. don't go mad IMO. Sikoflex sticks well enough i think. You try first.
Don't see why not either. You connect the controller first, before the panels, in a standard instal so it can't do it any harm to test. @pkrboo when are you going to pluck up the courage to get those things mounted
That's so frustrating! I get slated by Mrs BM for carrying so many little fixings in the bus but it's invariably the only one I need that's missing from the box! So what happens...I shove a handful more in for the next trip
...or just use 70 plus rivets AND mastic for that hurricane proof look. I figured fibreglass fills, sands and paints....
I won't be making any holes in my roof unless the size works out that the holes are outside the canvas.
Thank you. Interesting isn't it, that you'd 'happily' rebuild a bus body with more holes in it than a tea bag & I'd be more than happy with some glass mat & gel coat LOL. Horses for courses
I didn't make the holes though. Poptops like mine are so prone to leaking that JK even sell a cap to put over the whole lot! As mine doesn't leak I feel honoured, lucky and disinclined to make holes. It's a sheet of aluminium on a flimsy ali frame with vinyl stuck over all the rivets.
haha very true. It was one of those "take a deep breath" situations. I got quite gung-ho about it after the first 20 or so
I found that even a few kilogrammes on a Devon roof cap made it start to sag down as it would not quite pop up 100% when I balanced a roofrack bar on it Thorney Island military airstrip - testing seismic survey data links for OBC survey.
