160-watt solar battery charger? Opinions?
Good day all, Looking at a used Coach House 271XL on the E-450 chassis. It has two 6-volt house batteries, 1,000 watt inverter, 4.0kw Onan. I can add a 160-watt solar battery charger as a factory ins...
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Old Plank Road wrote:
Good day all,
Looking at a used Coach House 271XL on the E-450 chassis. It has two 6-volt house batteries, 1,000 watt inverter, 4.0kw Onan. I can add a 160-watt solar battery charger as a factory installed option.
I've read most posts concerning solar, seems like a no brainer to add.
Any opinions as to the solar and it's use in keeping batteries topped instead of simply using the generator?
Big step for a humble truck camper fellow.
Dry Creek
160 W panel is only going to give you about 10 amps of charging capacity and that's not going to do much of anything to keep your batteries charged if you are hoping that this could be a replacement for a generator. It will do a fine job of keeping the engine/house batteries topped off while the RV is parked and not being used but it's really not going to do much else.
