Project Choose Your Own Adventure

[ScottyB]

full strength GA sun today so i wheeled it out to finally test out the solar system and make sure its doing its photovoltaic thing before i seal it all up under insulation and wood.  you can see the 1.5" hard insulation getting run up the roof.  stuff's messy disaster to work with and to make matters worse, its highly static.  i'll be cleaning it up for years.


in order to get the rigid insulation to bend with the roofline, i'm cutting a series of table saw cuts through the length of the back that almost go through but not quite.  the resulting "kerf" the blade leaves allows a couple degrees of bend.  add 10 or 15 kerfs and you can easily get it to follow a round contour.

roughly accurate panel position on the roof.  will mount it with a hinge system for a rough ability to tilt it to catch direct sun.


YEAAAH BOYEEEEEEE.  after i realized i had my wires backwards, yellow went from blinky (fast charge) to solid which means its "floating" a constant incoming solar charge, just like it should on an already topped battery.


earlier work on the roof.  the black thing is the solar power wire "entry gland" for the external panel.  each insulation panel required a bunch of hacking, cutting, chipping, fitting, and then rinse repeat 5 times until just right.


the 2 tools of choice for cutting insulation panels and making wire channels.  my least favorite part of this by far.