What did you do to your rig today?

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Wayne, will it all work with the hot water bed?
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Took the only 25mm aluminium tube left hanging on the roof of the Iveco. After the drive from Hay to Binnaway to day. All rivnuts had pulled out and the 120 amp panel was not to be found. As I'm at bob r's He taped the ends of the wires [ex panel] to the battery.
Unfortuneatly he does not require the Engel now, so I'm off in the morning to places north.

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the 2 x 200w new solar panels are up as well as the new solar controller installed. Just need to finish the roof clean up but the rain got the better of that job. :)
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pet-els wrote: Mon Jun 05, 2017 7:18 pm Took the only 25mm aluminium tube left hanging on the roof of the Iveco. After the drive from Hay to Binnaway to day. All rivnuts had pulled out and the 120 amp panel was not to be found. As I'm at bob r's He taped the ends of the wires [ex panel] to the battery.
Unfortuneatly he does not require the Engel now, so I'm off in the morning to places north.

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Not good Peter, did the rivetnuts pull out of the aluminium roof bar or out of the 25mm square tube? Were the original mount plates used or a different mounting method all together? In hind sight it appears the bolts should have gone all the way through with large diameter flat washers to spread the load. Wasn't the bar the panel was mounted to originally facing down and hitting the cab roof? Looking at the photo it now appears it faces up at the front so when it was altered by the manufacturer they appear to have over corrected. It appears the wind pressure under that panel must be fairly high to actually rip the rivetnuts out of the aluminium, I wonder if the actual aluminium frame around the panel would be strong enough to withstand the continual buffeting? I'm guessing that gust when a truck passes the other way was the culprit as it sounds like it tore off rather than just blew off.

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pet-els wrote: Mon Jun 05, 2017 7:18 pm Took the only 25mm aluminium tube left hanging on the roof of the Iveco. After the drive from Hay to Binnaway to day. All rivnuts had pulled out and the 120 amp panel was not to be found. As I'm at bob r's He taped the ends of the wires [ex panel] to the battery.
Unfortuneatly he does not require the Engel now, so I'm off in the morning to places north.

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That's not good to hear, I have a wind deflector on the leading edge of the front panel on the bus, so no wind can get under the panels. It's made of a piece of gal bent so it deflects the wind over and around the panel, now we are home for a couple of weeks, if the rain goes away will put the awning machinery I'm making so the awnings will come out each side together on the bus and replace the heavy metal panel brackets with aluminium angle and give the roof a paint job.
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T1 Terry wrote: Tue Jun 06, 2017 9:51 am
pet-els wrote: Mon Jun 05, 2017 7:18 pm Took the only 25mm aluminium tube left hanging on the roof of the Iveco. After the drive from Hay to Binnaway to day. All rivnuts had pulled out and the 120 amp panel was not to be found. As I'm at bob r's He taped the ends of the wires [ex panel] to the battery.
Unfortuneatly he does not require the Engel now, so I'm off in the morning to places north.

PeterH
Not good Peter, did the rivetnuts pull out of the aluminium roof bar or out of the 25mm square tube? Were the original mount plates used or a different mounting method all together? In hind sight it appears the bolts should have gone all the way through with large diameter flat washers to spread the load. Wasn't the bar the panel was mounted to originally facing down and hitting the cab roof? Looking at the photo it now appears it faces up at the front so when it was altered by the manufacturer they appear to have over corrected. It appears the wind pressure under that panel must be fairly high to actually rip the rivetnuts out of the aluminium, I wonder if the actual aluminium frame around the panel would be strong enough to withstand the continual buffeting? I'm guessing that gust when a truck passes the other way was the culprit as it sounds like it tore off rather than just blew off.

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Terry the rivnuts pulled out of the round bar and the 25 mil r h s I think the wind was the culprit.
Yes the bolts probably should have gone through the round bar.

Bob

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