Advise on Solar Mounts ....
We scored three 250w solar panels in exchange for some work. This is great as this is how we like to pay for things. Before you get all jiggy on that I'll tell you that Cat is an Electrical Enginee...
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Searching_Ut wrote:
The mounting looks good to me. Given your roof design, it appears you'll probably have shading issues on one or more of your panels during parts of the day depending of course on where and how you're parked. To maximize your daily energy harvest you'll want to make sure your wiring and controller is set up to account for that.
Yep. The reality is that this is a bit extreme for a motorhome. It's not like we're running a bunch of stuff in there at the same time. So the shading issue, although very real, isn't that much of a concern.
We have a 40* rule. That's not outdoor temperature, that distance from the Equator. We're desert people so the sunlight is amazing and typically (although not this year) we experience 310 days of sunshine per year. Staying out of the Frozen Tundra (41* or higher) will help the kit perform very well.
Cat, my girl, is the Electrical Genius putting this together. I'm confident that she will get this running very well.
The panels were in exchange for Rife Therapy.
The charge controller was a gift from on off-grid customer.
We came into some budget issues so the inverter is on-hold currently.
The batteries will be AGM and that will require a modification to a storage box. So the final bit will take a little longer to complete unfortunately.
Thanks !!
