[Rhodes22-list] Solar Panel Wiring

[jbconnolly at comcast.net]

Did anyone install their own solar panels on the cabin top (i.e., GB location as seen in http://www.rhodes22.com/head_small.html )?  If so, how did you route the wires?  

Based on what I recalled from previous discussions, I took off the aluminum moulding in the cabin hatch area that covers the deck to cabin liner joint and found that my liner is glued to the deck.  Even if I drilled a hole to insert the wires into the space between the deck and cabin liner, I am not sure how I could fish them through to the edge of the cabin liner behind the screwed on carpet-covered trim pieces, because of the sharp turn as the liner turns outboard under the side deck towards the hull/deck joint.   


Crude cross-section, imagine port side looking forward. 
        
              panel          wire in
            =========||
          //
         //
|===//
|

 ^ wire out




Any suggestions?

I gave up during pre-launch preparations, but thought I might try again in the water.

Jim Connolly
s/v Inisheer
'85 recycled '03