Solar Panel

[bdpreece]

Does anyone know which batteries (starting or house) National wired the solar panels to?

[bdpreece]

Does anyone know which batteries (starting or house) National wired the solar panels to?

[Fred and Bonnie]

Brian, ours are wired to the house batteries. I believe I can safely say all NRV products are wired to the house side.

Fred

[speed racer]

It is wired to the house batterys but it doesn't put ou much. With diconect switch off it takes abought 2 weeks in full sunlight to bring the batts. up from 10v to 12.5v.

[bdpreece]

Thanks for the replies. I was guessing it was the house batteries just wanted some extra confirmation. I am now on my third panel and controller and they don't work either. I hope to install a totally different setup in the near future. As far as I can tell the factory installed systems were junk. I have talked to alot of National owners with coaches around the same year as mine and none had a working system.

[speed racer]

I have an 05 Dolphin and when mine burned up I got a Go Power panel and its worked for two years. They are only there to maintain the charge while in storage.

[Jeepster47]

speed racer,

What model of Go Power solar panel did you get?

Ed

[jerseyjim]

My 2001 5330 has a panel..stuck to one of the a/c covers. I can't find any info on it, don't know what (color) wires go into what batteries...don't know if it even works! All I can find out is that the panel is not supposed to "charge" anything....just "maintain".

When in "storage" (for months at a time) I start the motor and the generator once every 2 or 3 weeks....and when using the motorhome, but parking it in a RV park (snowbirding) for 2-4 months, this gadget I bought last year ("Trik-L-Start") seems to do what it is advertised to do.
The motor wasn't started for 3 months. Usually, that means the 12V battery doesn't have enough punch to start the motor. This time...with Trik-L-Start...the motor fired up immedately!

((Sorry about the commercial))

[speed racer]

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by jeepster47:
speed racer,

What model of Go Power solar panel did you get?

Ed </div></BLOCKQUOTE> The model no. is GPDL10. I only paid 106$ for it and that included shipping. Its a direct replacment for the factory one and all I did was pull the wires up out of the roof a little solder the wires together(they have the same color code) put some heat shrink on them and push them back down in the roof. I don't have the name of the place I got it with me right now but I will get it and let you know.