Fusing solar panel arrays wired in parallel.
Inline fuse for solar panel.
The second fuse between your solar panels and charge controller is a little bit different to figure out.
Now in the case of 3 panels in series and 4 strings in parallel if one string shorts the max amperage to short is 39 12 which exceeds the 30 amp max current rating of the 10 awg wire.
If you connect these panels in series there will be no increase in current flow so fusing is not required for this string.
The size of this fuse is dependent on how many solar panels you have and how they are connected series parallel or series parallel.
Between the charge controller and battery bank solar connector inline fuse between the charge controller and solar panels anl fuse set fuse.
If the panels are connected in series the voltage of each panel is added but the amperage stays the same.
We recommend adding two different fuses in the following scenarios.
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In this case the battery wires and ac dc inverter will be safely disabled by the fuse.
However we do recommend to add fuses to prevent any mishaps.