Sprinter Solar Panels

Solar panels collect the sun s energy and store it in your auxiliary battery batteries.

Sprinter solar panels.

This sprinter van solar panel roof cross bar allows you to mount solar panels to your sprinter van s roof. The price you see is for 1 solar panel roof bar. Go where you want to go and have convenient. I will say the panels performed really well.

At first i was leaning towards mounting them sideways across the roof. The energy stored from solar panels is the same as when you run your van s engine to have the van s alternator charge your batteries. Just a few years ago these panels would have cost us 500 each and only be available from specialty solar companies. On my diy sprinter rv conversion i ve mounted a pair of grape solar 160w solar panels purchased from costco for us 230 each.

We can t think of a better match than solar and a sprinter van or alternate makes ford etc of course. Solar panels and charger solar is a great way to recharge a battery and keep equipment like fridges and fans running during the day. You are able to mount solar panels between 2 solar panel roof cross bars. If we had to purchase panels there are plenty of good quality panels out there at reasonable prices such as these.

We ve already taken one week long trip with the renogy solar panels on our sprinter van. My solar panels are made by bend based zamp solar the same company that made the solar panels on my first sprinter van. Auxiliary batteries are standard with sportsmobile s standard equipment package. Peimar 300w solar panel or equivalent 1 midnite kid 30a solar charge controller or equivalent 1 samlex pst 2000 12 2kw 12v pure sine inverter 1 sikaflex 715 sealant 1.

Our batteries were usually back at 100 by late morning and that was after running our rear door cargo lights for hours at night. I ll talk more about how to determine how much solar power to have in the next section. Renogy 100 watt monocrystalline solar panels or the 160w version renogy solar panel monocrystalline solar panel. Here s a summary of what we ve done to add solar charging to our van.

Some mornings we even plugged in an electric kettle into the inverter for some.