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Wiring the solar panels Written by brad on December 26th, 2009 The first row of solar panels is installed. It’s time to look at wiring them together. Finished Each solar panel (data sheet, installation manual) has two cables on the back, one with a male connector and the other with a female connector. You can connect solar panels together (in series) with these cables. The more panels you connect together the greater the voltage. Because you need to have circuit breakers between the solar panels and the inverter/battery charger, you need to keep the voltages down to a level that’s reasonable for your DC breaker. The power cables Our breakers can handle up to 150 volts. We will wire in groups of three panels which generates about 100 volts. After you have connected your panels together, you’re left with one male and one female connector. One of these is positive and one is negative. These need to be connected to the combiner/breaker box. With our purchase, we got four 30 foot cables with the same connectors as the solar panels. What you do, is cut these in half (or so, depending on your arrangement) and use the two pieces to connect the solar panels to the breaker box. The end with the connector attaches to the solar panel, you strip the wire on the other end and hook it up in the combiner box. One very nice thing about this arrangement, is that you can wire the cables to the breaker box before you plug into the solar panel. This is very nice because solar panels can’t be switched off if it’s sunny. Midnite Solar MNPV6 Solar Array Combiner The combiner box we are using is from Midnight Solar. We will use four of the available six spots for circuit breakers. If we ever find that we need to get more solar panels, all we need to do is add some breakers and we’re ready to go. It turns out that this combiner box needs some assembly. That’s because it was designed for a variety of uses. It was pretty simple to figure out what we needed, but it was hard for me to figure ou