Charging From the Sun

Finally after much tinkering, we are charging from the sun. It's not fully correct yet with all the right connections, but George managed to get it wired together to prove it works! Our setup doesn't like the free circuit breakers we were given so George hot wired past those for now to get it working.

We did order the correct parts for it so we won't end up driving along and suddenly burst into a ball of flames! Here are the pictures of our current set up.



Charge Controller mounted to our newly upholstered couch

Hot wired on the roof


Wrapping black wires in white electrical tape = rainy day task.
 

George's ingenious idea to get the wires outside without cutting a hole in the side of the van


While George was working on wiring our van I was working on our new snap curtains.  Turns out when you use a rubber mallet like the directions say (instead of a metal one), the snaps will actually go on. We ordered some more snaps and will soon have our side curtains up with the outside facing side reflecting the sunlight and hopefully keeping the van cooler.  We lined our curtains with reflective sun shades we found at Ollies for $5.