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Quote: Originally posted by boff on 30/7/2014

Quote: Originally posted by trog100 on 30/7/2014i have thought about fitting a panel to my van.. 120 watts and on the roof.. fit and forget.. i would fit mine myself just to save money so far i havnt fitted one but there is time yet.. he he

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people seem to love making simple things complicated i think its a forum thing.. :)

trog
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Makes me smile as well. Got a no name panel mounted on the roof very bad. I can't even remember whether it is mono or polycrystalline, whatever this one is my first one was the other. All connected to PVM controller. A total no no if posts here are to believed. And I fitted myself so obviously a recipe for disaster.

Sorry to disappoint you all it just works. It worked at new year. It worked the weekend before last, it worked last weekend, and I'm sure it will work this weekend.

Sometimes there is to much theory. Something either works or it doesn't and mine works for us.

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Mmmm, no doubt.   There is a difference, however, between things 'working', and 'working properly'.

You could do without a plug on your hoover - just push the bare wires into the AC socket, and hold them in with little bits of wood. It will certainly 'work'

Better to have a plug on the end of the cable, though....

Panels will generally 'work' - unless they're shorted out - but extracting the best possible output from them requires a little bit of efforts and care.

Worth it, though.



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