In preparation for installing my solar panels, I'm going to run the wires perhaps this weekend. Each panel is 95W and I'll be running about 25' of wire, that's 50' round trip. I figured that #14 wire would drop about 8% of the voltage and I like a <5% drop, so I am planning on running #12. Does that sound reasonable?
Also what's anyone use to get wires through the deck? I used on of those sealed thru-deck connectors for my coax and it leaked like a sieve. I had to paint silicone on it to stop the leaks, so I'm not impressed with that solution. If I wanted to have to use silicone, I'd just drill a hole in the deck. I plan on having a connector at the solar panel in a semi protected area so I don't probably don't want a connector on the deck. That'd just be another point of failure/problems. Suggestions? Thanks, Jim. _______________________________________________ Liveaboard mailing list [email protected] To adjust your membership settings over the web http://www.liveaboardnow.org/mailman/listinfo/liveaboard To subscribe send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] The archives are at http://www.liveaboardnow.org/pipermail/liveaboard/ To search the archives http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] The Mailman Users Guide can be found here http://www.gnu.org/software/mailman/mailman-member/index.html
