Solar System Feedback - Go Power Extreme
Happy New Year Everyone! Yesterday I dropped off my 5'r (Durango Gold G380FLF) at the dealer to get several small PDI issues taken care of. I've been looking at having a solar system installed and ...
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Probably nothing wrong with that set up if you are not a diy person. The controller will do an equalize charge and it does have temp compensation.
Over all it would depend on how you are using the rig and other factors. If you boondocking a lot and get colder temps with a good amount of furnace use along with television, 480 watts will be pretty good but not excessive.
If you are going to actually utilize that 3000 watt inverter for microwave, toaster, coffee and hair dryers, you will need a appropriate battery bank.
So again, there is nothing wrong with that system but depending on how you plan to use your rig it may be to much of some parts and to little of others. If you were to tell us you never use a microwave much and never watch tv and plan on a cat heater to save propane it would be a big waste.
If you size the solar system at about 100 to 150 watts of solar for each 100 watts of battery you are good for about 320 to 480 ah of battery. I don't believe it will work out well using wet batteries to invert heavily so you need good agm's.
First thing is how much power will you be using. It also gets into the generator issue. Some want the coverage to use a generator for Ac and cloudy days. I also use my remote start Honda 3000 for heavy 120 v use instead of inverting. I wouldn't let it sit there until I have the somewhat rare need need for Ac so I incorporated it in my plan instead of heavy inverting.
So....it also gets into future expansion which gets into component linking ability and or larger controller and parallel vs series wiring. Pwm vs mppt. So, I'd guesstimate that if you use the heavy inverting ability you would need 500 to 600 ah of AGM yet you'd be a about medium sized on solar.
Over all it would depend on how you are using the rig and other factors. If you boondocking a lot and get colder temps with a good amount of furnace use along with television, 480 watts will be pretty good but not excessive.
If you are going to actually utilize that 3000 watt inverter for microwave, toaster, coffee and hair dryers, you will need a appropriate battery bank.
So again, there is nothing wrong with that system but depending on how you plan to use your rig it may be to much of some parts and to little of others. If you were to tell us you never use a microwave much and never watch tv and plan on a cat heater to save propane it would be a big waste.
If you size the solar system at about 100 to 150 watts of solar for each 100 watts of battery you are good for about 320 to 480 ah of battery. I don't believe it will work out well using wet batteries to invert heavily so you need good agm's.
First thing is how much power will you be using. It also gets into the generator issue. Some want the coverage to use a generator for Ac and cloudy days. I also use my remote start Honda 3000 for heavy 120 v use instead of inverting. I wouldn't let it sit there until I have the somewhat rare need need for Ac so I incorporated it in my plan instead of heavy inverting.
So....it also gets into future expansion which gets into component linking ability and or larger controller and parallel vs series wiring. Pwm vs mppt. So, I'd guesstimate that if you use the heavy inverting ability you would need 500 to 600 ah of AGM yet you'd be a about medium sized on solar.
