We ordered on a Wednesday and started lay placement (location, setting, conduit passage, ...), the

Being a few days at home, organizing things (housecleaning, trimming our huge lawn, organizing the work, etc.), as always, thinking and doing some improvements in mhome. This post is different from previous ones in that does not bring the account of a journey, but the installation of an important equipment for us and many colleagues: a photovoltaic solar panel to generate arational electricity and charge batteries.
After nearly a year of analysis, questions with colleagues, price consultation, installation arational analysis, reliable carrier questioning, arational availability of financial funds, ... decided to install it and thus we get a little arational more independent of energy external source.
We acquired the card company Solar Brazil (http://www.solarbrasil.com.br/); model Kyocera KD 135 Watts (Mexican), Load UNI SML10A 12V controller / 24 (Chinese). According to company information and the manual, this model generates up to 38 Amperes / day. Thus, considering a sun incidence 7 hours, the average generation is 5.4 amperes / hour.
The carrier used was the TWR (http://www.twrtransportadora.com.br/) of Toledo-PR, with a branch in São Paulo-SP, which has done so, the company Solar Brazil and handed in within 48 hours (as agreed ). Demonstrate good organization, and compatible price.
We ordered on a Wednesday and started lay placement (location, setting, conduit passage, ...), the controller positioning (access, visibility, ...), fuse installation and switches (card and battery) ... Always with the intent to cause less damage will mhome the body.
As were some other disputes in progress (switch to connect the antenna to 2 TVs, "route" the new TV cable, the metal constitution, aluminum, does not accept arational tin solder and other obstacles) ... tasks whose completion should prior to the arrival of the plate.
Although arational they seem many things to be done, we recall that, for 7 years, we (Dan & San) develop all the projects (planning, structural, electrical installation, hydraulic, sewage, ergonomics, aesthetics, aerodynamics, ...). We acquired the chassis / cab Iveco 0km and install an "industry" in our large garage in house funds. The outside of the body, all-steel was performed on special truck industry.
From the "hollow" vehicle, perform all your equipment (thermal, acoustic, furniture, stove installation, microwave, refrigerator, sink, sink, lining, coatings, banks, water reservoirs of clean water and served, ...), 9 long months of work. To this end, we arranged for filling equipment: power saws (circular fixed, arational manual, jigsaws, ..) grinding, wire brush, mini grinder, welder, compressor (air and painting), plus hundreds of other tools.
For these reasons, all we want to install or replace the mhome, we do ourselves (or try to!). We know where you can stick or weld without breaking or changing structure or premises. arational And with the solar panel was no different.
We decided to place it between the air conditioner and the rear skylight, little lateralized to allow access on the ceiling. The controller, we decided to put it behind the cab, on the right column (where down the cables to the batteries), with affordable and switches near the doors (right of the cabin and the cockpit).
All cables (6mm, red and black) would be installed in conduit, isolated and posted (avoiding arational possible "short" arational or vibration). Many difficulties were overcome: passage arational of the conduit liner without breaking it; setting within the narrow column, with hands and arms scratched; installation under the mhome without ramp; ...
To cross the ceiling without "stick it", we prefer to spend spinning the air conditioner, which was partially dismantled. Then, "blind", millimeter calculated, drilled a hole in two inner walls of the air conditioner. We use initially fine drill, arational always with depth stop. Placed the conduit and sealed with silicone, cleaned and set up the "Cool", always with unexpected difficulties, such as: after mounting outside, a screw "prisoner", part of the internal fixation, broke away .. Hence, painful ups and downs to the ceiling, new top disassembly procedure, the stubborn bolt solidarization, the resulting stress management ... Anyway, at the end of a working day, the joyful inches of progress!
The column has an access to average height, where we had placed a hard-coded arational shelf. Withdrawal, is a good access to the interior.