Bimini Solar Panel Mounts

The saddle fittings bolt onto the top of the frame through the canvas of your bimini top or dodger.

Bimini solar panel mounts.

The panels were fairly easy to install a positive and negative cable come off each panel through the aft clam cable hole that was already used for our radar cable and into the stern of the boat. Our split side mount hardware can make mounting your solar panel above your bimini easy. We knew from the beginning that we were going to need a lot of power. These are almost invisible from water level.

They come in various sizes and you easily find the one that matches the biminis of your boat. Only you know they are there. Although not recommended they can be stepped on. All panels come with industry standard waterproof mc4 connectors.

You can choose from a wide range of solar panels. Rails running fore and aft create the base and athwartship rails can augment the frame if needed. The solar panels installed in the video are for a soft bimini top onboard our powerboat makeover project which belongs to brian a manager at sailrite. They give you easy secure mounts for a solar panel frame that won t draw attention to itself.

The first thing you need to do is choose the right panels for mounting the solar panel on biminis. These panels are ideal for mounting on a bimini top or a curved deck surface. For instance our freezer was able to keep gelato frozen and the refrigerator kept the beer chilled all through the long hot summer but at a cost of 100 amp hours a day. Mounting solar panels on a bimini our vision realized.

Others prefer to put a frame over their canvas to support solar panels. Canvas dodgers and biminis are great places to mount flexible solar panels. These can be secured either with zippers or velcro for easy removal and is a fairly simple job for most canvas shops. Split style mounts can be mounted any where on a frame in the middle of a corner bend or even in the roof section.

This creates a greater range of applications including the use of split side mounts for installing solar panels on dodger and bimini tops. Our total daily.