How to Install Solar Panels on Your Sailboat

Cruising World Editor at Large Tim Murphy visits West Marine to grab all of the supplies he needs to install a new set of solar panels on a Passport 40 in Portland, Maine.

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(Rock music in the background..) Now let's replace the kettle in the kitchen. Remove the plug from the outlet. We will take the old kettle and replace it with a new one. And now the complicated part (rock music in the background...) we will place the kettle and connect the plug. Amazing project!

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I was searching for info on how to pass the wire through the topside…I see the deck glands as the answer. What I don’t follow is that the exterior entry through the deck glands the wire is PV wire but as it passes through into the interior the wire is of a different kind (white). What was the PV wire spliced to and where? The wire then going into the solar controller is PV wire again, as it was when passed through the top side deck gland.

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There was absolutely no content to this video other than annoying music. I know nothing more about installing solar panels than I did before.

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