Solar, worth it in my case?
Hope I am posting in the proper forum. DW and I tend to boondock or stay in parks with no electric. Although we have a generator I am reluctant to use it because of the smell and noise. I have a 2010...
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C Schomer wrote:
I never used the luggage rack so I put a 120w poly panel on the rack and I used a mppt control. I also switched to LEDs. That one panel fully charged my two 6gc batteries by the end of every afternoon even if it wasn't parked at a good angle for the sun.
Yes. 120W or even 80W panel on a sunny day, even a flat panel, even in winter, will generate enough for LED lights, DC circuits of LP fridge, and small electronics like laptop or radio/TV/DVD. Basic necessities take very little energy.
But when you "have to" run a vacuum through some monstrous inverter, or a microwave because don't know how to re-heat the leftovers on stove top, or watch TV with satellite receiver for 5-6 hours, this is when things go downhill. All these things you can leave out and it wouldn't affect your health or physical comfort. But most people don't want to.
