750W Solar install on TT
I am attempting to wire a 2800W Inverter/750W PV system onto a 2007 Kodiak 210DB hybrid, capable of shore or generator input. I am posting my basic wiring diagram in the hope that, if I've overlo...
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I haven't checked the specs on the 250WATT Panels but I know the 120WATT PANELS produce around 5-6AMPS DC current during high sun. With this in mind I am assuming the 250WATT PANELS will double that. Having three in parallel would give you a min of 36AMPS DC current to use for charging batteries.
My charging setup will need to produce 14.4VDC @ around 20AMPS per battery if I want the batteries to re-charge within a 3-hour time frame. Of course you will have high sun for a good 5-6 hours or so a day so that will be enough to get two T105s to float mode in the one day sun I would think.
Glad you are realizing that SOLAR is not the only answer and you really have to have a generator setup if you want to totally rely on keeping your batteries at their minimum of 90% charge state when you need to use them.
I am just now in SOLAR PANEL MODE thinking after camping off the power grids for the past few years with my 255AHs battery setup. I know exactly what to expect and when I need to do re-charge my batteries. They are still going good since being installed in 2008. I will most likely start out with two 120WATT PANELS on my POPUP ROOF and maybe add another 250WATT PANEL later on. That is about all the room I have on my POPUP ROOF.
The only real thing I have learned for my style of camping off the power grid is I MUST start each evening with a good 90% charge state if I want to make it through the night. This all then gets re-charged again starting at 8AM the next morning. I may also have to run my generator for around one hour to get over the smart mode high current period of BOOST MODE. Then I am hoping the SOLAR PANELS will take over and get me re-charged to at least to the 90% charge before i start using the batteries again that evening.
This requires a good monitor system to keep me in the know where my approximate battery Bank charge state is when nearing the loss of high sun. I can always go back to generator when allowed to run my generator at the camp site to get the battery bank where it needs to be at. I will not want to start my evening run off the batteries unless they are are at least at the 90% charge state.
These are my baby steps...
Roy ken
My charging setup will need to produce 14.4VDC @ around 20AMPS per battery if I want the batteries to re-charge within a 3-hour time frame. Of course you will have high sun for a good 5-6 hours or so a day so that will be enough to get two T105s to float mode in the one day sun I would think.
Glad you are realizing that SOLAR is not the only answer and you really have to have a generator setup if you want to totally rely on keeping your batteries at their minimum of 90% charge state when you need to use them.
I am just now in SOLAR PANEL MODE thinking after camping off the power grids for the past few years with my 255AHs battery setup. I know exactly what to expect and when I need to do re-charge my batteries. They are still going good since being installed in 2008. I will most likely start out with two 120WATT PANELS on my POPUP ROOF and maybe add another 250WATT PANEL later on. That is about all the room I have on my POPUP ROOF.
The only real thing I have learned for my style of camping off the power grid is I MUST start each evening with a good 90% charge state if I want to make it through the night. This all then gets re-charged again starting at 8AM the next morning. I may also have to run my generator for around one hour to get over the smart mode high current period of BOOST MODE. Then I am hoping the SOLAR PANELS will take over and get me re-charged to at least to the 90% charge before i start using the batteries again that evening.
This requires a good monitor system to keep me in the know where my approximate battery Bank charge state is when nearing the loss of high sun. I can always go back to generator when allowed to run my generator at the camp site to get the battery bank where it needs to be at. I will not want to start my evening run off the batteries unless they are are at least at the 90% charge state.
These are my baby steps...
Roy ken
