Flexible solar on a pop top

[Mick H]

With regard to the cable entry points, how can the low profile of a flexible panel be maintained, on a pop top roof ?
The reason being, access, under height barriers

 

[wildebus]

This is an example of one I did a few years ago ....

IMG_20190701_164133 by David, on Flickr
With this one, I cut the plugs off and fed directly through the roof via a pair of rubber grommets and used some WAGO connectors under the top to connect to cables that went to solar controller.

This panel is a Lensun one and has the panel connector box a little taller than is now typical and a semi-flexible panel youwould get now would be a little lower there.


Of course, it is essential you have all work inspected and on this Transporter here I am getting a Cat Scan ....

Cat Scan by David, on Flickr

 

[Robmac]

At first I thought it was a Pet scan David.

 

[Mick H]

This is an example of one I did a few years ago ....

IMG_20190701_164133 by David, on Flickr
With this one, I cut the plugs off and fed directly through the roof via a pair of rubber grommets and used some WAGO connectors under the top to connect to cables that went to solar controller.

This panel is a Lensun one and has the panel connector box a little taller than is now typical and a semi-flexible panel youwould get now would be a little lower there.


Of course, it is essential you have all work inspected and on this Transporter here I am getting a Cat Scan ....

Cat Scan by David, on Flickr

Thanks, that's

This is an example of one I did a few years ago ....

IMG_20190701_164133 by David, on Flickr
With this one, I cut the plugs off and fed directly through the roof via a pair of rubber grommets and used some WAGO connectors under the top to connect to cables that went to solar controller.

This panel is a Lensun one and has the panel connector box a little taller than is now typical and a semi-flexible panel youwould get now would be a little lower there.


Of course, it is essential you have all work inspected and on this Transporter here I am getting a Cat Scan ....

Cat Scan by David, on Flickr

Thanks, that's about what I thought, because I couldn't find any low profile entry glands. Obviously, the only concern is avoiding water ingress, so, I might use rubber grommets too.

 

[Jo001]

At first I thought it was a Pet scan David.

A cat scan, surely?

 

[Pudsey Bear]

He said cat scan, do keep up.

 

[Jo001]

He said cat scan, do keep up.

Sorry, too early for me obviously ...

 

[MERL]

He's got a Dog too that does the Lab' reports.

 

[wildebus]

Thanks, that's

Thanks, that's about what I thought, because I couldn't find any low profile entry glands. Obviously, the only concern is avoiding water ingress, so, I might use rubber grommets too.

As a additional safeguard, the holes were made at the point where the popup is overlapping on the metal roof, so should there be any ingress, the water would land on the outside roof and not inside.

 

[Mick H]

Thanks again, for the additional info. In my case, I may be bringing the wires to a point inside the pop top, not on the overlapping part of the roof, although, I've not finally decided, yet. It's on a Nissan NV200 van

 

[Robmac]

These Scanstrut glands seem to be fairly low profile at 24mm high;

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[Robmac]

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[Mick H]

These Scanstrut glands seem to be fairly low profile at 24mm high;

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Interesting ! At the moment I'm awaiting delivery of the Flexible Solar panel, to determine the exact height size, including it's cable attachment, before making decisions. I'm thinking of using the ring eyelets, to attach it via the existing pop top hinge bracket bolts.

 

[wildebus]

If I were to fit the panel I pictured earlier again, I would do the cabling in the same way ... i.e. two separate grommets, one for each cable, due to how the cables come out on opposite sides of the PV cable box.
However ... I did use one of those scanstrut low profile entry boxes that Robmac linked to (or at least one that looked identical) on Wullys MAN Van to bring in the solar cables and I thought it a very neat bit of kit.