Airstream Factory Solar Panels

The first part of our airstream electrical is detailed in the following post.

Airstream factory solar panels. Digital display amps volts 30a only 5 stage charging algorithms. High efficiency small footprint monocrystalline panel. In that post i covered upgrading the batteries to lithium installing a battery monitor inverter charge controller and surge protector. Expandable to 30 amps or 510 watts of solar 30a only suitable for flooded gel agm or calcium batteries.

If your airstream trailer has one of the various solar pre wire options these can save a lot of time and money during an installation but due to the thin 8ga or 10ga cable you will be limited to about 300w of solar panels. If this isn t enough skip down to section 3b. This airstream came with a zamp portable solar panel plug which they wanted to be integrated into the solar system we installed. Flush mount or surface mount digital charge controller.

100 watt solar flex panel 30 amp digital solar controller for 80 480 watts of power 50 of 10 mc4 output cable and mounting hardware for all of the above. 25 year warranty solar panels only. We had already very carefully measured and in our situation found only one suitable installation location for our panel. Ensuring the panels are clean not partially shaded by trees or other interference will promote solar charging.

Airstream electrical upgrade part i. In the box was a gopower. The final piece of the puzzle was the solar panels. Cut the cord to expensive daily shore power hook ups with the 12 volt solar charging system.

Design a solar charging system utilizing a factory pre wire. We now have 500 watts of solar on top of our airstream five 100 watt solar panels. Airstream utilizes zamp solar panels and a victron charge control and display. Connected through our solar charge controller these panels feed our new agm battery bank consisting of 440 ah of juice 220 usable.

We set up this system with expansion in mind so if they find that 400w isn t enough to offset their light dc loads they have the option of using a portable panel and or they could choose to install up to another 200w on their roof. The sunexplorer charge control performs these basic functions.