18/03/2026
Finally found some time on the weekend to work on our own weapon of a caravan! 2025 Snowy River Luxury Series SRL220S that we had custom made to order for us. We asked for five solar panels to be fitted on the roof during the build, and paid good money to have a solar regulator fitted that was supposed to be big enough for 5 panels?! No specs were ever given in the paperwork for the wattage of the solar panels, so me being me I found the specification stickers under the panels using a mirror and a torch! Turns out we had 5 x 200W panels. The solar controller could only manage 700W of input. So out it comes, the correct sized solar controller is now the size of a small suitcase and needs to be mounted in the front trunk area. I ran 10mm2 cables for the solar panels, from the cupboard with the battery management system, through the walls, down behind the fridge, through the floor, along the chassis and back up through the floor. 25mm2 cables from the new solar controller to the shunt and batteries and job done. Only took 7 hours of my Saturday, easy peasy! 🤦♂️🤣
