Factory Solar Port

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• AnOldUR Member Posts: 1,616

  October 5 edited October 5

  All solar panels require a controller. Some are mounted to the panel for convenience, but mounting one close to the battery will reduce voltage drop and increase the efficiency of your system. From the factory the port is wired directly to the battery (bypassing the battery switch) and has no controller between the port and the battery.
  
  Buying a panel without a controller and adding a Victron controller that can be networked with other Victron devices has been our choice.

  Stockton, New Jersey
  2020 nuCamp T@B 320S * Jeep Wrangler
  (47,171 towing miles through the end of 2024)

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• pthomas745 Administrator, Moderator Posts: 4,322

  October 5

  Many owners have portable panels and used the "SAE" port on the side of the tub.  If you look at your battery, you will see two sets of wires (or, you should!).  One set of wires go to the trailer back to the WFCO, and the other set of wires go to the solar port.

  
  

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  Towed by 2014 Touareg TDi
  

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