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My experience with Eternabond Tape- Test of time.

February 03, 2022, 04:10:42 pm

The Eternabond Tape in the photo is 10 years old. I taped all these seams over the existing caulking 10 years ago when I bought the rig. I think is has held up excellent. I recall cleaning the area with acetone and then carefully placing the tape over the seam with a small roller. My wife helped me and the extra set of hands was a big help. LD recommended removing the existing sealant (brownish, orange gummy stuff) but I saw no reason to remove this stuff and glad I did not. The Eternabond has stood the test of time and I continue to use it. I also like 3M 4200 polyurethane at areas hard to tape.

Re: My experience with Eternabond Tape- Test of time.

Reply #2 – February 03, 2022, 11:52:57 pm

Matt, nice job, I’m a believer in Eternabond myself.
I noticed you routed solar cabling down the sewer vent. Did you give any thought to the fridge vent? I might do this in the future and mulling the advantage of each.

Thanks,
Steve

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Reply #4 – February 07, 2022, 12:52:34 pm

The solar is actually routed down the fridge vent and was done by LD at the factory. Thanks,  Matt

I just removed the original 2- 85 W solar panels placed by LD at the factory and replaced them with 3-100 W panels I bought at Costco(Grape Solar Panels). They are wired in parallel. I think I may add another 100 W panel and wire in the 4 panels in series and replace the PWM controller with a MPPT controller. This I believe will max out the 10 gage wire. What do you think? Matt

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Reply #6 – July 22, 2022, 03:13:22 am

Hi Matt;  I'd just place the fourth panel in ( Parallel ) with the others,  If you lose a few watt-hours from running a bit more current than optimum through the wire you've got, no big deal.  You would spend too much paying for another controller. With four in parallel, most of the time you won't be at maximum power anyway.  A drawback to having four in series is shadowing. Just one item on one panel would limit the current in all of them. Best of course is to add more wires in parallel, that also means you don't have to remove the wires you already have. You can just add more wires in parallel, along with the panels in parallel.  RonB

   edited to say 'Parallel'   Voltage loss isn't too much of an issue with 10 ga. wire and a little loss only at maximum sunlight and maximum current situations.  RB