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johnm1
Explorer
May 03, 2016

Do I need solar or more batteries and a better charger?

OK - I'm starting to wonder if I'm looking at this wrong. I was planning on solar and starting small with 1 or 2 portable panels and eventually put them (and more) on the roof but now I'm really wo...
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red31
Explorer
May 03, 2016
johnm1 wrote:
But right now it appears that solar doesn't make economical sense for us.


for the price of a MPPT controller you can have a decent maintainer. Run the gen every day for 2 hrs (enjoys electric make coffee), on 2 week trips crank the PWM controller up and equalize after trip on a sunny day or two.

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