Dodger Solar Panel

They feature highly abrasion resistant shelter rite vinyl strips underneath a sunbrella marine grade cover to prevent the corners and sides of the solar panels from chafing the sunbrella bimini top.

Dodger solar panel. Want to know more. These can be secured either with zippers or velcro for easy removal and is a fairly simple job for most canvas shops. Designed to be flexible and adaptable now you can have a folding dodger frame with better cockpit access solar panels on your bimini top mounted on hidden structures and a host of accessories pretty much anywhere. If you have limited space on your boat and don t want to build a structure to install a solar panel flexible solar panels are a great solution.

When we decided to go with the semi flexible solar panels jr wanted the mounting to look finished we knew that sewing industrial velcro on the bimini and dodger and sticking it to the underside of the panel would do the trick but he wanted it to look a little more custom. The solar cells in our panels are of the highest quality and output available and made by sunpower usa bosch german and qcell german. The solar fishing pole is a ready to operate complete solar charging system that utilizes the power from a 30 w solar pv panel that will drop into any fishing rod holder and plugs directly into the auxiliary cigarette lighter includes everything you need to keep your battery topped off while. Canvas dodgers and biminis are great places to mount flexible solar panels.

In the video we also demonstrate how to create a reinforced opening in the bimini top to accommodate the solar panel wiring. Buy the tube in the length you need and mount the panel to the tube using aluminum unistrut see mcmastercarr and 3 4 ss pipe unistrut clamps. You will see on our solar panel page that our semi flexible solar panels have comparable performance to our line of semi rigid and rigid high performance solar panels. This is because we use the same high performance sunpower 23 7 efficient solar cells in all of our solar panels.

It is a clamshell that goes around the existing dodger frame with a 2 post welded to it they sell them for add on handrail installation and a socket for a 1 ss tube. Store the panel under a bunk when not in use. Position the flexible solar panel on the bimini or dodger and attach a mating set of magnets on the underside of the canvas. These are almost invisible from water level.

Connect the solar panel to the solar system using an mc4 t branch connector. They can be. The next most popular position is on a cockpit dodger which will often mean using flexible or semi flexible panels as opposed to rigid ones. With luck or careful planning a gantry will also keep your panels aft of the boom thereby eliminating loss of output caused by boom shading.

Tried and trusted on hundreds of boats they give you a wide new range of possibilities.