Do I attach the red and black wire to a controller or battery or circuit board? The red wire is stuck in the caulking on the back of the panel.
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The safest way for both your equipment and your battery is to always use a charge controller. We have about 20 of these panels in use with MPPT type charge controllers purchased off eBay for about $10 each and they work great. These panels won't, however, keep up with a very big electric load. We use 9 amp-hour batteries with a continuous load of just under 100 milliamps, and with these solar panels our load stays powered an average of 12 hours per day (which is all we need). It's important to do the math to properly match your load requirements with a large enough solar panel, battery and charge controller. The safest way for both your equipment and your battery is to always use a charge controller. We have about 20 of these panels in use with MPPT type charge controllers purchased off eBay for about $10 each and they work great. These panels won't, however, keep up with a very big electric load. We use 9 amp-hour batteries with a continuous load of just under 100 milliamps, and with these solar panels our load stays powered an average of 12 hours per day (which is all we need). It's important to do the math to properly match your load requirements with a large enough solar panel, battery and... » Read More The safest way for both your equipment and your battery is to always use a charge controller. We have about 20 of these panels in use with MPPT type charge controllers purchased off eBay for about $10 each and they work great. These panels won't, however, keep up with a very big electric load. We use 9 amp-hour batteries with a continuous load of just under 100 milliamps, and with these solar panels our load stays powered an average of 12 hours per day (which is all we need). It's important to do the math to properly match your load requirements with a large enough solar panel, battery and charge controller. « Show Less
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I am using the panel connected directly to a large, deep-charge battery, and it works OK. You can go through a controller if you are worried about overcharging your battery.
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You should verify the polarity of these wires before to have those connected to anything. Mine comes with brown and blue wires.
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LED Panels? Do you mean an LED Matrix panel? If so, start with one panel (in), two wires should be there to extend the power then just connect the wires to the next panel. Red is positive and black is negative. Does this help?
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I don't remember now, it's been a while. I did not have any problem. I drew a wiring diagram based on the circuit diagram that came with the controller.
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The black wire should be the ground wire. I believe it should of had a round "ring" end, I'm guessing it got left off at the factory by accident.
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The wires have probably come off the board You may have to unscrew the side with the cord going into it and slide the inner workings out and fuse it back
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Our charge controller is mounted inside a storage locker so it stays dry. Once the panel had been in service for a few days, I taped some plastic over the electronics area on the underside of the panel to help keep water out. Months later I added a bead of clear caulk around the frame, for the same reason. Figured it couldn't hurt.
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Small hole at bottom of controller. Under the bottom of where battery pack plugs in.
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I am replacing an existing one and I had one red wire that was capped off. I hope that helps:)
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I just cut off the solar panel connector and installed bullet connectors. Just make sure you put the female side on the panel wires so there will be not accidental shorts. Has been working fine for almost 6 months now.
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It's kind of a novelty in a vehicle, but cut the wire near the inverter and strip the outer insulation there will be a red and white wire. red is +12v and white is common or ground. The wires are probably around 18 awg stranded aluminum so the current passed through is very small. You might squeze more power out by hardwiring it to the board, no doubt voiding the warranty if it has one.
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It's well marked. You connect the pos and neg wires from the panel to the marked terminals on the controller. Also same goes for the pos and neg wires from controller to battery. Connect the battery and controller first, then Connect the panel. Cover the panel while making the connections.
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if it was installed correctly, the backlit showed be on. There is a wire that is connected to the power, that should be properly inserted into the small connector on the circuit board.
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Thanks, i'll check for the switch on the back tonight. i'm sure the polarity is correct, red to lead (+) and black to ground (-) right?
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Hi I hope this helps. Take the back off. Looking at the "board" this "screen cord" plugs into the "board" on the left side at the bottom. circuit board on left and battery will be on right.
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There should be a negative and positive terminal where you can put a wire in and clamp it as seen in the picture near the bottom corner the two terminals. You'll need to take a 9V battery and get one of those connectors where it connects to both of the battery's leads and turns them into a red and black wire.Put those wires into the terminals respectively and it should be powered
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the red is the power should go to the battery or a hot wire, the black is the ground wire just screw it any where metal, the green and yellow wires are for the turn signals if u were to hook it up to those, i dont believe wiring up a different wire will remember a pattern whenever i turn mine on its always on the last setting i had it on
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Are you possibly connecting it backwards? I don't have it handy but I know the black ground wire is at the end of the row of pins. I believe the black wire should be on the right when the pins are at the bottom and the display is facing you.