How To Disconnect Solar Panels With Mc4 Connectors

Mc4 connectors allow strings of panels to be easily constructed by pushing the connectors from adjacent panels together by hand but require the mc4 spanner to disconnect them to ensure they do not accidentally disconnect when the cables are pulled.

How to disconnect solar panels with mc4 connectors. You must release them with the disconnect tool. There is a mark on the metal to. Anyone got a soldering iron at 5 000 feet up in the mountains of haiti. Mc4 male connector fitting.

You must insert the two extended posts on the end of the tool into the side of the female mc4 connector. Some versions of mc4 have a removable safety lock clip that covers the interlock tabs and provides additional unintentional disconnect protection. You can t use other cable to connect the original 4mm sq solar cable. If for some reason you need to disconnect your mc4 cables you will need one of these.

You will notice the wire is stripped shorter than the metal crimp connector. Connectors using these clips cannot be squeezed apart by hand. Working with mc4 connectors requires a few specialized tools. Standard mc4 connectors will definitely lock together.

The mc4 wires are soldered in there with no way for me to remove them without a soldering iron. And even if i could remove them there s no convenient way to bring in my own wire no terminal strip all i can do is cut the ends off the mc4 wires and figure out some way to. This is an mc4 disconnect tool. Mc4 connectors have seals around the cable and also in the mating parts of the connectors that red bit in the picture.