ISO specific dimensions of UP's roof rack rails.

[tmeyer3]

A little background information, feel free to skip to the next paragraph for the actual request. I am building a slide-out solar panel roof kit that sits below the roof rails. Currently in the drawing phase, but incomplete. The idea is to add locking solar in the space between the top of each set of rails and the truck, supported with aluminum v slot extrusions and high performance solar arrays, at least during the prototyping phase. This allows for many useful configurations and doesn't use the space above the rails unless additional solar is wanted. I estimate configurations without using space on top of the rails can have around 700-2100W of deployable solar, and confurations that use the space on top of the rails to have 350-700W of continuous solar and all the way up to a huge 2900W of combined deployable! This, of course, depends on the dimensions available. I believe there is a large market for something integrated like this for week+ glampers like me. Many of us are already using large solar generators of similar size, but I'd LOVE to have integrated solution like this that is fast and easy to deploy once I'm on site or if just want to park my truck outside to slowly charge.

@Unpluggedperformance (hope it's ok to tag here) I found on your site that the rails are approximately 140mm tall (top of the rail to surface of the truck?), but I'm unsure of the following dimensions:

1. Distance between each set of rails.
2. Distance from the bottom of the rail to the truck.
3. Distance from the top of the rail to the truck (and/or rail thickness). Is this the 140mm mentioned online?
4. Width of each rail.

It's also important to know if these measurements are consistent for all sets, or if there's variation. I really appreciate any help you can provide!

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