05 Pleasureway Excel - Solar Panels?
Just wondering if any of you that have an Excel wide body have placed solar panels on your roof. If so, can you (or maybe already have) share your installation? I'm putting in two new AGM batteries an...
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I don't have a Pleasure Way, but as stated "a roof is a roof". I installed two Renogy 100 watt panels from Amazon and a Renogy controller and I have two 12v conventional deep cycle batteries. Last summer, we spent two weeks in a NF campground. No hookups, of course. All I can tell you is they worked very well for us. Perfect? No. Help a lot? Yes. I ran our genset about an hour each day when it was cloudy. We were in a forested area and had, normally, about six hours of good sun on the roof. I am very pleased with the performance.
Knowing how to live away from hookups and be conservative on power usage is a must. I built in a digital voltmeter for the system and I monitored it carefully, never letting the batteries get below 12v. We have been boondockers for a lot of years and this is the best solution we have ever had on a rig.
Paul
Knowing how to live away from hookups and be conservative on power usage is a must. I built in a digital voltmeter for the system and I monitored it carefully, never letting the batteries get below 12v. We have been boondockers for a lot of years and this is the best solution we have ever had on a rig.
Paul
