ANOTHER D*** Solar Question!!!!
Just upgraded trailer to a new, much larger trailer (Timber Ridge 280RKS) which has a "huge" 10W Zamp solar panel. The panel is wired directly to the battery through a master switch and 30A breaker. ...
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smkettner wrote:
BFL13, Would be interesting to test that 130w panel with #16 wire and see the effect on amps in similar conditions.
I can see it from here over on my camping neighbour's roof doing a great job for him now. :( It is on a much shorter run of #8 the way it is set up for him.
His 5er is parked E-W for the season and we put the panel on his bedroom slide out leaning against the roof line in its wooden tray I made for it that he got with the panel. The wires drop down outside the trailer right above his battery tray in front. So the panel stays tilted up facing South the whole time.
Drives me nuts now that I wish I had not sold it! I could use it on the truck camper we got lately instead of having to swap over the 230w panel.
I made a wooden tray for that which stays on the truck camper strapped down around its front overhang, so I just put the 230w in its tray there as needed. Otherwise it is back here in its tilted twirler contraption on the ground by our 5er. I also have to swap over the Eco-Worthy controller for the 230w, so it is rigged up with quick connects. Work, work, work! :)
