Mounting Rigid Solar Panels On Bimini

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Mounting rigid solar panels on bimini.

Customers have found that using our canvas bolt on kit works well for mounting our semi flexible marine solar panels directly to their bimini or dodger canvas. The kit includes a vinyl disk to be adhered to the underside of the canvas fender washers to secure the bolt to the canvas a bolt and nut to tighten the washers to the canvas and an acorn nut to secure the solar. Attaching the panels to the bimini we used the services of massimo the local canvas guy to attach the panels to the bimini and he did a first class job. We designed our saddle type post and fork mounts with solar panels in mind.

Flexible marine solar panel bolt on canvas mounting kit. The saddle fittings bolt onto the top of the frame through the canvas of your bimini top or dodger. To accomplish this brian created reinforced frames on the bimini top for the solar panels to lock into via loxx pull it up fasteners. I sailed on a 42 foot boat that had large solbian semi flexible solar panels mounted directly to the cloth top of the bimini with a flush mount on the cloth and it looked smooth from the side nice non obtrusive and simple.

Use grommets to install panels 5. The photo up top does appear like a jungle gym of extra pipes and clamps and on an any moderate sized boat 36 feet especially those with. The frames for the solar panels are designed to blend into the bimini top while providing reinforcement for the top itself. The long sides of the panels are zipped and velcro d in place and the short sides are attached with velcro only.

We bought four of the 100 watt panels and two of the 50 watts. Mounting systems for flexible semi rigid and rigid solar panels. The 120 watt panel they offer was actually a bit too long to fit our bimini while the dimensions on the 100 watt fit our top exactly. Here we are going to show you easy ways of installing our solar panel on biminis.

There were two things i liked best about the king solar panels besides the incredible price.