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rrwantr
Explorer
Apr 24, 2014

New 5er Looking for cmpnt sugg to make 2-300W porta solar

Just purchased a new 5er. Moved up from a TT. However we do quite a bit of dry camping. In our previous trailer we could get by for 2 weeks (longest we would be out) with the 2 -12V batteries by ru...
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JiminDenver
Explorer II
Apr 29, 2014
I would save the money and run the panels in parallel with a PWM controller. You could get a extra panel with the difference and that would be more power than the MPPT boost would give you.

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