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How to Mount Your Solar Panels
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- čas přidán 11. 07. 2018
- Mounting your solar panels can be difficult. In this video, you will learn some of the best ways to mount your panels regardless of what camper, van or school bus you are in.
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You've just made the Skoolie World a safer place, well-spoken, good info
No panel will hit the ground on my watch haha. 😂
Your videos are excellent. Succinct, informative without any filler. Keep it up! Jax really chose the right person to help with the new bus.
Thanks! Building Jax’s bus has been a lot of fun. Excited to show everyone when it is finished.
@@navigationnowhere He's going to love it! You can if you want to start your own business of school bus conversions to RVs, camper, trailer homes. :)
Having lost a panel on the highway to a strong cross wind I know how scary that can be. The failure wasn't the attachment to the roof but where the panel attached to the Z bracket. A nut vibrated off and have the wind a lift point. When I mounted the replacement I used 1/4" bolts with toggles that are meant to be used in drywall. This have me a large surface area on the inside. All nuts used are self locking with Locktight red added
🙌 Thanks for sharing for those reading! It’s super important for people to know that vibrations... even micro vibrations, can back out a screw. Lock nuts FTW
Navigation Nowhere What does FTW mean?
Haha For The Win. Lock nuts and lock tight are life savers and will help prevent your bolts from coming off.
Navigation Nowhere hahaha, not up on all the abbreviations, thanks
Steampunk Steve yes I ended up using the nylon inserted nuts that won’t vibrate off. I also paid the extra money for stainless steel to take care of future rust issues.
Soooo helpful! I'm getting an aneurism figuring all of this out🤯 thank you!
Haha, it’s not easy but totally doable with some time and patience.
Great how to video ,I am sure Jax's bus will be great once you and Badge finish with all the hard work
Super excited, it will start ramping up quickly. We almost got the metal work done!
Worthy of a like 👍 Solid info to store away should I ever be able to convert a van. Thanks
Hope you will have the opportunity someday!
search "VHB tape solar panel installation". No holes in the roof. use 3M VHB tape to mount the mounting brackets to the roof and then bolt the panels to the mounting brackets. VHB tape is stronger than screws and you can tape brackets with a longer base. So the stressed
area covers a bigger footprint. It will NOT come loose.
I finally got my skoolie!!!!! And yes I’m coming back for your help!!
Thats awesome! Congrats on getting the bus!!
@@navigationnowhere now I just need you, Badge and some Dean to help me hahahahaahhaaaa
@@navigationnowhere your view counts are definitely going to go up lol I’ve already rewatched so many
@@navigationnowhere it’s a short bus
Great video Michael!! I'm going to be adding some panels to our bus so this was great!
Sounds like a good idea. Good luck !
I would use 1 5/8 inch gal. Unistrut bolted though center of ribs with 3/8 threaded rod and fender washers
We r going to be doing this soon so I'm doubling down on my homework to find all the safest way so I can do this n make sure I'm overdoing the safety tips.
Question: when mounting with bolts and washers wouldn't it make sense to put some wood on the inside of the bus instead of just relying on the washer???
I was wondering about that also
Excellent information. Having had a panel on my car for a few years I’ve found vibration can be a real and silent enemy. Larger panels will flex/vibrate and create a standing wave at a resonate frequency depending on speed (no bumps required!).
To keep this to a minimum I suggest using a piece of POOL NOODLE the foam sticks kids play with in a pool or at the beach. Place it between the roof and panel to dampen the vibration. I don’t have proof but strong suspicion that this keeps the cells from structural destruction cause by oscillation/vibration. I know that pool noodles and even foam pipe insulation are available in many diameters and such. I think even a piece 18” properly placed with the wind flow could really work well.
Pool noodles sounds like a simple cheap solution. 👍Will totally kill those vibrations ! Thanks for sharing.
SO USEFUL! will definitely help us in our build !!
Always great....always good information.
This is a very good video on how to do it right, thanks Michael, y'all take care and YHVH bless.
Thanks!
Great video! Thanks
God ! Thank you ! I'm just about to mount a 320W to the top of my van. I've been considering how to best safely do this. Kinda what I figured. Thanks for the well timed tip !
Another fantastic video, man. Nice screw-toss, B-roll. - C
Haha hate those screws. 😂 Glad you enjoyed the video!
Fantastic information....
Excellent video! Thanks for sharing!
Rather than washers, why not use a metal plate with holes matching the ones in the roof? That would give even more surface area. Also, what about using rivnuts as fasteners?
That would also do the trick. It would really depend on where you put your mounts and how secure that location is. It all comes down to movement and vibrations. Those two = bad things eventually. Haha
rivnuts can pull out they are better for hanging them mounting in line
Came from Jax channel!!!!!
Awesome logo super-imposed on the drone shot! At the risk of asking a stupid question... here I go: Why not reverse the solar panel bolts so that the nuts are accessible on top of the roof? Would that not allow for tightening if need be due to vibration? With the nuts on the under-side, they will presumably be inaccessible due to foam insulation and wood finish inside. Just wondering. Also, Skoolie's propane tanks on the roof seem like a great idea. Where did you put Navi's propane tanks, and why?
Thanks! You could reverse the nuts. However, I typically use locking nuts so they would not come loose. But, that could totally work. As for propane tanks, Navi’s tanks are under the bus in the rear. It is a 29 gallon asme rated tank. Many people put them on the roof and that works as well.
With a lock washer on the screw head I'm guessing.
I have been loving your videos and creativity. But i have yet to see anything on harvesting rainwater on your RV to filter and refill water tanks. While solar panels reduce the amount of time you have to be plugged in somewhere, the need for water(filtered) is more necessary. How would you invlude this with your designs?
What is the blue material on the flooring on the bus ? Thanks!
You can also get tin snips and some thin galvanized sheet - what ever thickness you want. If brazing isn’ an option use J-B Weld epoxy. It has a tensile strength of 3960 PSI. Build large patches to support your large washers.
BTW... at 6:03 - FYI, we do have shoe & boot laces available here in Canada. No tariffs on them yet - as far as I know. Check the local hardware store... the same aisle as the moose pajama's. If they are out, let me know. I will send some to you (boot laces... not pajama's). 😀
I thought about buying laces but I didn’t want to get stuck at the border when I return. The shoe wars are a real thing! Haha
Could you please let us know what W and size the panels on jax' roof are? The panels here in Oz all seem to be HUGE is you want 250+ W panels...?
good vid , & nice logo
Thanks, i really like my logo as well. My friend helped me design it!
Great video thanks 👍😎🚌
loving your videos!! hope everything is going well up there! this is bryce with green coffee bean bus btw haha
Hey Bryce, thanks man. I saw some of the modifications you were doing to your bus. Killing it man.
thanks a lot! slowly but surely adding all the pieces! :)
Any chance of a video that covers the pros and cons of 12 volt vs 120 volt builds. If you’ve already covered that I apologize, I thought I’ve seen all your videos
I have not covered that yet on my channel. Maybe in the future. Thanks for the suggestion.
I would love to get a 3/4 length bus, but need to do the build in stages. I’m going to take your advice and gut it first so I can check for leaks, add supports, insulate, etc. I’ll have to grow into the solar panels and roof deck so I was thinking of mounting a super strong rail system or rack or something attached to the ribs themselves so I can add whatever size panels, whatever size deck etc. Is this a good idea? Is it good to attach it to the structural beams of the bus? Like a roof rack? Total newbie but my family needs a place to live on the road ASAP. Having a hard time finding a good bus.
Hi there. Do you do buses? And what state are located?
Can you do one on pluming? I can’t find anything on that topic
What would you recommend if you have a fibreglass roof ???
Typically if you don’t have clear structural point to use. Try to get a nut and washer behind the fiberglass. Try to stay away from any flexible parts of the fiberglass
Dumb question, who is Jax? And what's his channel?
How about welding them fasteners and frame to the top? Why didn't you think of that? Am I missing something?
I don’t know if I would want to weld the thicker steel mounts to thin sheet metal. But, maybe it would work.
@@navigationnowhere Well, yea, it seemed obvious in my mind not to do it that way, but rather welt do the framed areas, just so that you know your close to the structural strong points. Though, Maybe there are concerns with doing that. I am not a welder or anything. I am just up against doing the job myself or wanting to have solar, but I have a prevost bus and they sit pretty high as it is.
While taking everything out of the bus all of that can be recycled. Especially the school bus seats used for something else useful. :)
is that jax's bus still?
Yes, I am still helping Jax on his bus. My videos will be on his build and other projects I currently have going on for now.
Cant you mount a rack that you can bolt the Panels to? Most will have a deck on a bigger bus in addition to the solar. I still think a full length rack secures everything
Can you please show how to do a blind fastener?!?!
They will work pretty much the same way as screws. Once they are screwed in they will expand and hold in place. If you search it on google a lot of results will come up. 👍
Navigation Nowhere do you mean like Mollies do?
Jax said one almost fell off though?
Yes, one did almost fall off. It was not a mount issue. The panel was never installed tightly after test fitting. Must have forgotten
you might aswell use toggle bolts,
Why do people call angle steel, angle iron?
I hate to see people just gluing them on, no matter how strong the glue is, could be stronger than the steel, but you sticking it to nothing stronger than PAINT ! paint flakes on its own without all the stress of a panel being attached, if you really want to use tapes and glues like a pre-shooler, at least go to your dealer, and ask how much ''pull'' and weight you can attach to the paint before it will break away, go ask... see what they say.....
For beginners with a Budget you Just disqualified 80% of the people who take your advice and or the diy aspects......$800 for a panel??? Gtfoh
I'm sure an alternative best recommended. Would been nice
I appreciate your suggestions. It might be fun to do a video in the future on different solar panel price points on the market and what you will get for your buck. I understand for many the cost of solar can be hard. However, I am not going to suggest a “cheap option”. If I am going to suggest something on this channel it will be something I can stand behind. They are great panels.