In a few years you are likely to own an electric car.
Prewire for solar panels.
The panels will not go on the roof they will go out in the yard or on an outbuilding or pergola so i don t have to worry.
In some of the newer instances that use this form of wiring the charge controller is already present the only piece that needs to be added is the solar panels themselves.
These panels are rigid solar panels and flex solar panels.
Does it make more sense to pre wire for solar or should we just wait and get it installed afterwards.
Use a wire sizing calculator for solar arrays that will figure out the size of wire you need.
The all electric future means that you are likely to add big appliances to your home over time.
When we bought our new 2016 tiffin allegro red we had it pre wired for solar.
The best method would use a cable entry plate and a wire that is run all the way to the battery and is already fused and the location of the charge controller already chosen.
This prewired for solar rv included the installed charge controller but it did not have any solar panels installed from the factory.
We then asked the dealer to install some solar to just make use of the pre wiring nothing huge keep the batteries topped off kind of thing.
A great way to go about choosing the wire thickness for your solar system is to buy solar panel wire big enough to cope with the biggest current amp drawing appliance you have and using that wire for all the other runs to the ac breaker panel.
They won t be in the budget initially when the house is built but i want to prepare for them and make sure i don t miss something during the construction process that i will have to redo.
The flex panels can curve to match shapes on airstreams while rigid panels have better warranties and are usually are a little less expensive.
These pre built systems come pre wired and pre tested to make your job easier.
There are 2 main types of panels that we have to match the go power prewire setups.
3 84 kw gridtied battery backup solar system with outback power center and 12x heliene 320 panels wss outback grid tie w battery backup system for 12 heliene 60 cell modules 17 142 92.