Airstream Solar Panel Installation

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.

Airstream solar panel installation.

This is our complete airstream rv solar guide. The installation installing the solar panels. We did a lot of research looked at so many other airstream solar setups and realized there was a lot to unpack to understa. Since the electrical panel that comes with the airstream has one common negative bus bar we need to split it so the circuits are separate from each other.

Otherwise here are our recommendatio. It s a 2019 hensley one of. Zamp solar kits feature solar panel mounts hardware connectors cables deluxe digital charge controller and a robust aluminum framed tempered glass monocrystalline solar panel. These kits are perfect for keeping rv s campers and travel trailers from colonial airsteam fully charged.

Design a solar charging system utilizing a factory pre wire. The panels came from amsolar and came with everything necessary to do the installation. 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. This airstream came with a zamp portable solar panel plug which they wanted to be integrated into the solar system we installed.

When we bought our airstream we knew we were going to install solar to give us the flexibility we wanted with our moving home. Complete and ready to install. In the box was a gopower. Okay that is not entirely true we do have a hitch after all.

I started with installing the solar panels first. What s more with all 2019 airstream travel trailers leaving the jackson center ohio manufacturing facility with dedicated solar ready hookups zamp solar s wide array of rooftop and portable solar solutions make it easy for all airstreamers to harness the. Today zamp solar panels are used in all pre installed airstream solar packages. We had already very carefully measured and in our situation found only one suitable installation location for our panel.