Calling on Solar Techies
I have been thinking of going solar for some time and decided to pull the plug. My wants are a 400 to 500 watt system. I have four 12 volt batteries with 340ah. I am not planning on changing b...
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1L243 wrote:
The heater has 3 settings with the lowest setting being under 600 watts.
With the existing usable battery capacity, one MIGHT get 2 to 3 hours from a 600 watt heater. Then the battery bank would need a full recharge.
My system harvests about 17 amp-hours @13 volts on December 21. That is a scant 221 watt-hours. It would cover some of the parasitic loads.
While the rv is in storage harvest is enough to keep the battery bank happy and fully charged. My original capacity was 437 usable amp-hours or about 5000 watt-hours. For a weekend I ran what ever I wanted with the exception of the roof air conditioner. For a 5 day trip, I had to eliminate running the water heater on electric. Boondocking was limited by fresh water, not power.
I wish, that instead of getting a generator when I went full time, that I had redone the solar with a massive upgrade. As it is, the system is 15 years old and still provides it's oem rated capacity.
