Wired for Roof Satellite and Solar

[373fb-Colorado]

I opened my roof access plate on my 2020 373fb and i could only find a small hole with other wires going through it and no obvious area to access the chase from the inside. Does anyone know if there is supposed to be another hole or if I can access this from the inside of my camper? Thanks in advance.

[bertschb]

I opened my roof access plate on my 2020 373fb and i could only find a small hole with other wires going through it and no obvious area to access the chase from the inside. Does anyone know if there is supposed to be another hole or if I can access this from the inside of my camper? Thanks in advance.

On my 2019 373FB, the access hole is on the ceiling of the cargo bay on the curb side. Mine had a sticker on it that said something like "Sat access". The BIG problem on mine is there is no conduit from the roof to this hole in the basement. You have to fish the wires and in my case it was not easy. To make matters worse, the access "channel" ran right behind the light switch in the bathroom and while trying to fish wires I ended up disconnecting the wire from the back of the light switch.

I ended up removing the light switch in the bathroom and fishing a wire from the roof down to that location. I then fished a wire from the light switch down to the basement.

I'm really glad GDRV added the roof access panel and the hole in the basement but the execution was lousy IMO. A simple piece of conduit from the roof to the basement would have made all the difference in the world.

[vonzoog]

That should be the correct hole. Try snaking a small wire through the hole and see if you can located it inside.

Om my Momentum the hole under the plate wasn’t more than 1 to 1 1/2 inch. This entered into the chase that ran down along the wall (inside in my living room area) to the basement area. Screws held the chase together allowing one panel of the chase to be removed allowing you to route the cable/wires down to the basement area.

Hope this helps.

[02dynawide]

My 397th was suppose to have it and it didnt. I drilled down in between bedroom and kitchen wall down back of cable hook ups . Then put in a powered splitter and wired all 4 tvs

[HankCharp]

The hole to run cables into the garage of me Solitude 310 was 1.5" toward the center of the roof, not exactly below the roof plate. Inside the roof of my garage there was a Satellite cable sticker showing where the cable chase is located.

[cookinwitdiesel]

On my solitude I plan to use this for solar panel wiring. So you are saying that there is no conduit, just an open space with designated holes at each end?

[HankCharp]

No conduit just a space between the 2x4s though with I ran 6 gauge wire to a combiner box for my solar panels. I have 3 345watt panels in parallel. Ive measured up to 700 watts mid day at about 35 volts.

[Funkeytaste]

I just bought a 2020 which has a satellite access on the roof but no hole drilled out to the basement, this is frustrating because now I have to drill a hole myself and hope I don’t drill into the bathroom or bedroom.

[bertschb]

I just bought a 2020 which has a satellite access on the roof but no hole drilled out to the basement...

Which model did you get? My 2020 Solitude 310GK had a hole in the basement but when I removed the access panel on the roof, there was no hole up there. I had to drill that myself. Also, there was no conduit between the roof and basement. When I drilled the hole in the roof directly under the access plate, it came out in the medicine cabinet in the bathroom! I better stop writing before I say something nasty about the design...