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gintaras
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 Posted: Sat Nov 28, 2015 11:53 am Post subject: Foolish to cut the front luggage area? |
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Would I be a fool to trim the luggage area? I would like to install a solar panel there, but it overlaps the corners slightly, so I'll have to trim it a bit in order to get it to sit flush. Are these so expensive and hard to find, that it would be foolish to cut into it? I'm
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aeromech
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| Posted: Sat Nov 28, 2015 12:12 pm Post subject: Re: Foolish to cut the front luggage area? |
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Pinetops
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| Posted: Sat Nov 28, 2015 12:16 pm Post subject: Re: Foolish to cut the front luggage area? |
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Could you just mount the panel slightly proud of the luggage rack like it is in the picture?
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jmstu76
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| Posted: Sat Nov 28, 2015 12:30 pm Post subject: Re: Foolish to cut the front luggage area? |
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It's your bus, I've seen worse done to westy tops.
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Tcash
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| Posted: Sat Nov 28, 2015 1:23 pm Post subject: Re: Foolish to cut the front luggage area? |
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You could mount it on the Pop top this keeps the sun out of your face and when you pop the top it puts the panel on the perfect angle to absorb the sun.
http://www.thesamba.com/vw/forum/search.php?search..._chars=200
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gintaras
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| Posted: Sat Nov 28, 2015 1:43 pm Post subject: Re: Foolish to cut the front luggage area? |
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yes, I am probably going to go that way, it''l be overkill, but I ordered a Yakima 2-bar system, so i;ll just mount it to that instead.
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Tom Powell
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| Posted: Sat Nov 28, 2015 2:02 pm Post subject: Re: Foolish to cut the front luggage area? |
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| gintaras wrote: |
| yes, I am probably going to go that way, it''l be overkill, but I ordered a Yakima 2-bar system, so i;ll just mount it to that instead. |
Aloha
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Malokin Martin
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| Posted: Sat Nov 28, 2015 2:07 pm Post subject: Re: Foolish to cut the front luggage area? |
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| yes. |
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Tcash
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| Posted: Sat Nov 28, 2015 2:08 pm Post subject: Re: Foolish to cut the front luggage area? |
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Could you Post some pix of the installation.
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Tom Powell
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| Posted: Sat Nov 28, 2015 2:24 pm Post subject: Re: Foolish to cut the front luggage area? |
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| gintaras wrote: |
| yes, I am probably going to go that way, it''l be overkill, but I ordered a Yakima 2-bar system, so i;ll just mount it to that instead. |
A solar panel mounted on racks on a raised poptop should be improved efficiency over a flat mounted panel. Park into the sun and put a sunscreen on the windshield.
You've killed two birds with one rock.
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skills@eurocarsplus
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| Posted: Sat Nov 28, 2015 2:43 pm Post subject: Re: Foolish to cut the front luggage area? |
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Jesus Christ, it's just fiberglass...cut what you need to. it would take a body shop an hour to make it looked like it never happened should you make your bus concourse d'elgance or pebble beach material in the future
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72camper
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| Posted: Sat Nov 28, 2015 8:05 pm Post subject: Re: Foolish to cut the front luggage area? |
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| Do you have a late bay? Also, what panel do you have? And size? I just mounted a large one on mine and didn't have to cut anything. |
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BUSBOSS
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| Posted: Sat Nov 28, 2015 8:07 pm Post subject: Re: Foolish to cut the front luggage area? |
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Cut the panel. Not the bus.
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gintaras
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| Posted: Sun Nov 29, 2015 7:02 am Post subject: Re: Foolish to cut the front luggage area? |
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It is a late bay, '79, and a Renogy 100Watt panel.
I am going to mount it on the Yakima cross bars, the front luggage tray will hold my gas weber grill.
I will post some pictures and wiring once I start hooking it all up.
I have the panel on the roof, a PWM LCD controller, 2 AGM 100 Ah deep cycle batteries wired in series under the rear bench, and a 300 Watt sine wave inverter.
I "work from home" 80-90% of the time, and I live in Chicago, the plan is to head south for the winter, so I'm taking my dog and my coffee roaster and I'll be south of Chicago by mid-December. The solar and batteries will provide enough for me to charge my laptop and run the motor for my coffee roaster.
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mikedjames
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| Posted: Sun Nov 29, 2015 10:35 am Post subject: Re: Foolish to cut the front luggage area? |
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Solar panels have to be cool for efficiency. Airflow behind it is important. Spacing it from a panel will help. So do not mount flush.
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