treeman
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Wondering if anyone has some good advice on attaching a large solar panel. I've read through the hints and tips and looked at other articles on here but my installation has a few differences.
My van roof is very old, over 26 years old, and has crazing of the roof skin appearing. It is still 100% water tight I'd like to keep it that way so I'm a bit nervous about drilling too many holes through it. Also it's all nicely lined inside and hate the thought of how to get access from inside.
Also the panel is rather large, about 1.5m x 1m and over 17kg so wondering if that weight might cause an issue?
Currently have it sat on the roof rack but that has got to go as adds too much height and is cracked in places.
I'm happy to install like Techno100's good article, but will Sikaflex 512 bond well enough to a rough'ish old roof and how many brackets do you think I might need? 6 per panel?
Old roof - showing it's age...
My van roof is very old, over 26 years old, and has crazing of the roof skin appearing. It is still 100% water tight I'd like to keep it that way so I'm a bit nervous about drilling too many holes through it. Also it's all nicely lined inside and hate the thought of how to get access from inside.
Also the panel is rather large, about 1.5m x 1m and over 17kg so wondering if that weight might cause an issue?
Currently have it sat on the roof rack but that has got to go as adds too much height and is cracked in places.
I'm happy to install like Techno100's good article, but will Sikaflex 512 bond well enough to a rough'ish old roof and how many brackets do you think I might need? 6 per panel?
Old roof - showing it's age...
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