What you can do with solar
No sure how many other follow "Gone with the Wynns" but they did a nice little video on Solar Boondocking. They make it very enticing. Check the video out Here.
Forum Discussion
wbwood wrote:
I think he stated that you could not expect to run that many appliances every day and be able to keep your batteries charged. I agree with that. What I'm uncertain about is the ability to produce approximately 4.5 kWh in one solar period with 600 watts of solar with the conditions they allude to. They ran their batteries down to 50% that evening and turned off all electronics so they could start over again the next day and that it was the afternoon before they were charged back up. Still impressive IMHO.
If they had a couple more batteries and could harvest even more power there, then that would be even better. They certainly would benefit from more batteries with that much solar. However, batteries only store, not produce. Ultimately, all the power has to come from the panels. Solar will only produce to meet the demand up to its limit. A larger bank will let one average out the production fluctuations over a longer period of time.