Solar Info Panel For Sprinter

Sprinter van conversion building out a van you have lots of different options when it comes to power.

Solar info panel for sprinter.

My solar panels are made by bend based zamp solar the same company that made the solar panels on my first sprinter van. The panel comes into a breaker switch this is so you can easily isolate the solar input from your electronic setup. On my diy sprinter rv conversion i ve mounted a pair of grape solar 160w solar panels purchased from costco for us 230 each. The panel goes through first a fuse this should be rated at 25 more than the max amperage of the panel.

I wired the two 12v solar panels in series for a higher voltage and current output for example with two kyocera kd140sx solar panels around 36v and 15a of possible maximum power. You can now get 400 watt panels but these are larger area panels. Just a few years ago these panels would have cost us 500 each and only be available from specialty solar companies. We decided to run our entire electrical system on solar power using the renogy 100 watt solar panels and renogy rover solar controller.

Using these components we are able to charge our 3 100 ah lifepo4 battle born batteries. The solar panels harness the power from the sun and then a wire runs to the batteries where the power is stored. The panel is a canadian solar 300watt mono si perc. I ll talk more about how to determine how much solar power to have in the next section.