Raised by Hamsters posted:

Fun side note! Commercial solutions for side wall entry of solar power connections SUCK. And mostly don’t even exist. Pretty much everything that’s commercial and set up as “solar ready” is using the crappy SAE connection that’s existed forever, these things –


I have a fond hatred of these from my parent’s camper when I was a kid, I remember that sometimes the electric would work, and sometimes it wouldn’t, and frequently you just kind of poked at stuff until it maybe connected. The battery on their 1970’s camper linked to the camper itself through one or two of these, and I think they were always suspect. As far as I can tell no one else actually seems to like these, either. Anyway there’s no other solutions for specifically what I want to do so I’m rolling my own. Except for something from a company called Furrion who makes exactly what I wanted but I never found their stuff until writing this post and googling up an image of the SAE connector that I was mentioning and it’s too late for me to get that now, and now I’m annoyed.