Narrowboat Solar Panel Fitters

Fitting a solar panel to your narrowboat.

Narrowboat solar panel fitters.

The solar panel will not interfere with the operation of the other equipment but items like t v. Being off grid on a narrowboat and keeping all electrical devices charged is a challenge that we prepared for by purchasing a few usb battery packs and a stand alone solar panel. Most of a narrowboat roof is potentially space for installing panels but you need to look at how much of that you can spare or want to allocate for the use of the solar panels. We have two different battery packs 1 x 20 000mah pack and 2 x 10 000mah packs.

The smaller battery pack also has a solar panel built in. These panels have a stand that allows you to set the panel up outside the boat pointing it directly at the sun. 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. The simplest and quickest way to use a solar panel on your narrowboat is to buy a portable solar panel.

This should be on an area of the cabin roof or wheelhouse clear of other equipment. This is the physical size that you have available to be taken up by a set of solar panels. Of course everyone has a view on this rigid advocates will tell you that flexible are inefficient and break easily are costly etc. They can be mounted either using the 4 grommet holes in the panel corners or by gluing the panels down.