How To Attach A Solar Panel To A Van Roof

The curved z brackets are two separate sliding pieces.

How to attach a solar panel to a van roof. This is all you need for your basic solar panel installation. The kit comes with 4 brackets for each panel and all you need to do is use the screw nut bolt for each one and attach them. Clean roof and apply loctite pl adhesive. The first thing you need to do is attach the z brackets to the solar panels so that you can securely attach them to the roof.

Attach brackets to the solar panels. Mounting solar panels to the roof of a van most solar panels are designed to sit on the roof of a house not to be driving down the road at 70 miles per hour. Part 1 of 2. One side of the angle is bolted screwed or adhered to the roof surface while the other side is attached to the panel.

The upper piece is bolted to the panels while the lower piece adjusts to sit flush on the curved van. The easiest way to mount a solar panel to the roof uses a few lengths of angle aluminum. The panels themselves can take much higher wind speeds but it s all in how you mount them to the roof. Dry fit the solar panels on the van roof.

My setup because it keeps the panel at an angle is pretty simple to remove if i want to park in the shade put the panel in the sun. Bolt solar panels to roof and plywood strips. How do you all attach solar panels to the roof of your van. Mark and drill holes in the van roof.

The typical solar panel is mounted with a z bracket which is simple and flat but we elected to go with a curved z bracket which is specifically made for a curved roof like a van. Cut plywood reinforcement strips and drill holes. It took 2 of us to lower the solar panel into position and onto the sikaflex. If you placed the roof rack cross bars close together you could mount it using only split pipe hangers.

The solar panel mounts only have a right angle of plastic in contact with the roof so as you can see in the photo below the sikaflex was placed in a right angle shape where the mount would make contact.