Solar connector in Nautilus compartment

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• Sharon_is_SAM Administrator Posts: 9,871

  June 7 edited June 7

  Did your Cirrus come with factory installed solar?  Is the Renogy panel and charge controller just supplemental?

  
  

  Not familiar with the Cirrus Nautilus compartment - photo would help.
  
  Typically, a nuCamp solar port is connected to the battery. In general, if the charge controller is attached to the solar panels, then they are plug and play.  If they are separate, then you must connect the controller to the batteries and then to the panels. 

  Sharon / 2017 T@B CSS / 2015 Toyota Sienna Minivan / Westlake, Ohio
  

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• johnVT Member Posts: 2

  June 7

  Thanks Sharon, 
  
  Yes, my Cirrus has 350w of solar on the roof attached to its own Victron controller. There's also a Victron inverter and a couple of other Victron components (shunt, bus connector) for connectivity to a phone app. All this works with  270Wh battery. The Renology pieces were separate. 
  
  The Nautilus is the where the "waterworks" for the camper are located (external shower hookup, city water input, etc) and it's not really important in this discussion. Suffice to say it's just the place where the solar port is located. 
  
  The tech at nuCamp did mention that the solar port was connected directly to the battery, but I wanted him to confirm. 

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• Sharon_is_SAM Administrator Posts: 9,871

  June 7

  So, is the charge controller attached to the solar panels or separate?

  Sharon / 2017 T@B CSS / 2015 Toyota Sienna Minivan / Westlake, Ohio
  

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