Narrowboat Solar Panel Fitters

Fitting a solar panel to your narrowboat.

Narrowboat solar panel fitters.

They can be mounted either using the 4 grommet holes in the panel corners or by gluing the panels down. The smaller battery pack also has a solar panel built in. This should be on an area of the cabin roof or wheelhouse clear of other equipment. These panels have a stand that allows you to set the panel up outside the boat pointing it directly at the sun.

Of course everyone has a view on this rigid advocates will tell you that flexible are inefficient and break easily are costly etc. Find the best place for your solar panel. The solar panel will not interfere with the operation of the other equipment but items like t v. The simplest and quickest way to use a solar panel on your narrowboat is to buy a portable solar panel.

Sunworks portable solar panels have an adjustable stand that allows the panel to be tilted up or down. We have two different battery packs 1 x 20 000mah pack and 2 x 10 000mah packs. This is the physical size that you have available to be taken up by a set of solar panels. These small panels typically come in 5 10 and 20 watt sizes are semi flexible and will gently bend to fit the curve of most narrowboat roofs provided the curve is not too tight.