I have a pair of 120 watt panels on my RV (soon to be upgraded to three 320 watt panels), so I rewired them recently from my thoroughly inadequate 10 AWG wire to 1 AWG.
BUT... the terminals on the back of my charge controller (currently a Renogy Adventurer 30A unit) are tiny. Looks like the largest it'll take is 8 or 10 AWG.. so I need a way to reduce the wire size without canceling out the benefit of having gone to the larger cable. I'll do the same thing on the output side of the controller to the batteries.
The ultimate plan for the near future is to go with the three 320 watt panels, and then eight or more 6v batteries in case anybody is curious. I have a 1000 watt pure sine inverter right now, but will replace it with a 2800 watt unit too. Since I live in this RV fulltime, I want to eliminate my need for shore power perhaps except for when I need A/C. I can run my generator for that.
Thanks.
Rob
BUT... the terminals on the back of my charge controller (currently a Renogy Adventurer 30A unit) are tiny. Looks like the largest it'll take is 8 or 10 AWG.. so I need a way to reduce the wire size without canceling out the benefit of having gone to the larger cable. I'll do the same thing on the output side of the controller to the batteries.
The ultimate plan for the near future is to go with the three 320 watt panels, and then eight or more 6v batteries in case anybody is curious. I have a 1000 watt pure sine inverter right now, but will replace it with a 2800 watt unit too. Since I live in this RV fulltime, I want to eliminate my need for shore power perhaps except for when I need A/C. I can run my generator for that.
Thanks.
Rob
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