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Siting decides more warranty outcomes than wiring does. Pick the spot with this page open.

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Before you start

Walk the site with the owner. You need a wall that satisfies all of the rules below — if none does, the answer is a different wall or a canopy, not a compromise.

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The siting rules

  1. Shade, always. Not in direct sunlight — heat radiation derates output and cooks the display and plastics. The ideal spot for Kent G3 keeps ambient at or below 40 °C; a north-facing wall under an eave is the textbook location.
  2. Out of rain and snow paths. Rated for outdoors, but rain and snow must not land directly on the unit — mount under a canopy, eave or overhang.
  3. Solid, load-bearing surface. The mounting wall must carry the unit’s weight — no hollow or decorated-cavity walls.
  4. Altitude — the platform split. Kent M1 operates up to 2000 m; Kent G3 up to 4000 m. Hill-station and Himalayan sites route to Kent G3, or raise a Kent query first.
  5. Away from flammable storage. No fuel, gas cylinders, straw or chemical stores in the vicinity.
  6. Away from antennas and direct cold-air blasts. Not next to TV antenna cabling; not in an AC outlet’s cold stream.
  7. Nothing that drips from above. No water pipes, AC drains or window sills above the unit — see Glands & Water Tracking [KNB-VAL-16].
  8. Reachable. Display at eye level, breakers within reach, covers openable — see Mounting & Service Access.
Pending Kent validation — special environments. [KNB-VAL-17] Formal siting classes for corrosive environments (coastal salt-mist, chemical belts, livestock ammonia) are under confirmation. Until published here: escalate such sites to Kent before quoting or installing.

Good siting: shaded north wall under an eave — figure KNB-PH-02

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Common mistakes

  • The “convenient” west wall by the meter — it takes full afternoon sun and derates all summer.
  • Inside a sealed cupboard “for security” — see Heat, Sun & Ventilation.
  • A beautiful spot 3.5 m up a stair void nobody can service.

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When to escalate