I'm gonna try and give you a 5 minute guide and a fitter silent anal but
before I do that lets do a quick word about solar panels now there are
different types of solar panels there's a big array available but what I'm gonna
say is just get what you can afford whatever your budget allows you but ask
yourself do you really need a solar panel I mean my those kind of aim was an
old Volkswagen much like this one when I was a young LED and I had a switch like
this on the dashboard start the engine up take this switch and
that same power from the alternator to my lizard battery wasn't even an Auton a
up it was a dynamo that's that long ago it was and in fact it wasn't even a
laser batteries just an old factory that I've got from the breakers yards for to
quit and I get four years and it lasted it worked fine oyster got my from weeks
at a time no dramas at all no solar panel just this switch on the dashboard
that's all I used but nowadays also you've got these voltage sensing relays
and they're great they work fine you only really need a solar panel if you're
going to be stood steak for a long period of time and you've got a ceiling
fan like this one because the hotter it is the more Sun you've got the more your
side panels gonna charge your battery and the more you're gonna want to use
your fame it's perpetual motion' type thing going on there brilliant so yeah
do you really need a solar panel if you think you don't then keep watching and
I'll show that fear now there are basically two ways to
attach your solar panel to your roof and it's either screw it I'll glue it and
this one I'm gonna be gluing but if you do decide to screw I recommend these
screws their roofing screw so they've got another washer already attached and
they do seal and yet it pretty good but even they not still recommend using some
sealer just around just to make sure you don't get your water ingress into your
vein now the glue I'm gonna be using is this new pole tiger seal it's a sealant
and adhesive and he's super strong downside is it's super expensive as well
this was over 15 quid for this rotten tube but there should be enough in here
to do one solar panel but no matter how you decide to fix your solar panel to
your roof you're gonna need something else as well you need a bracket of some
sort this one I'm gonna use these big plastic ABS brackets no they don't come
drilled already pre-drilled the hole just a same bit of toy now to determine
where I'm gonna put the corner brackets up on the roof rather than risk using
the tape measure you know will that measure twice cut once malarkey and we
don't a risk in you that I simply use a piece of timber you know I'll cut this
piece of timber did this earlier cut the same length as the width for the solar
panel and another piece the same length as the link for the solar panel using
these two pieces of timber bark and now get on the roof with my corner brackets
and work out where they're gonna fit and how they fit more importantly between
the ribs in the roof because the roof has got these ribs in it
and I'll need those plainclothes own corner brackets to fit as fast as
possible but doing that I can determine the best position for the solar panel
without actually taking the solar panel up on the roof because we don't wanna
keep dragging this thing up and down really every and I'll do work on my own
so I've been up on the roof I've measured it all out and I've determined
that I need to trim a little bit of this off it's just fun it fits Dan in between
the ribs and actually fits perfect really really pleased add outfits
I wouldn't have been out to do that and that me little bits of timber I should
get the leather in there and try show you what I mean what is
going to end up looking like look at will data fits nice nice and snug they
remember this piece of timber represents a solar panel so I noted a right
distance apart I know they're square because of a scene of devayne
and because of the ribs on the wind that makes them fit in that corner nice and
snug now the other ones on the other side right up there you know did a white
distance apart because in a link for this piece of timber and I'll know
they're the right distance apart that way and I'd walk there and check it with
this so that's what I'm going to do next on the chick using this piece of timber
but they're the right distance apart fits in there perfectly so now I'm
confident that they're in the right place or I can glue em down so I glued
these down I've left it a couple of days now just to give that tiger seal chance
to sit of course I probably hang on there with
all my white and that's not going to go anywhere so I'm really pleased with that
now these cables I put these cables here when I very first started building the
vein and simply by drilling through these plastic grommet that was already
in the roof my veins have got these I think they're placed there for emergency
beacons for them to put wires for that sort of stuff so why not use them rather
than drill food and met with a vein simply drill through viola days and
Pasha cables through and then seal it with mystic not sealed it on the outside
and on the inside as well and that's never gonna leak so yes all I gotta do
now kind of in place and connect it up simple as that so the screws I'm gonna
be using are these roofing bolts now I've taken the washer off the thing
is these are perfect for this as well cuz they're self drilling as well when
they're self tapping this framework is aluminium so we don't have to worry
about this one it's not going to go rusty
so this goes in there not because it's magnetic it holds it in place nice and
easy
don't want to do them up cite the case it pulls on there and any undue stress
needs to be nipped up the inner dates new sponsor implants
perfect my solar panels on the roof all I need to do is connect it to this but
before I do that we'll need to finish off building my bed but wasn't built my
bed I will run the wires through through the bottom of this cabinet and simply
connect the positive and the negative to these two terminals
let's see it's done that's all the wiring finished a complete so there you
go nice and simple nice and safe just goes to show it's not that scary putting
solar panel on the roof you vain so if you like this video please do give me
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