Down and dirty solar question.
Not terribly math savvy . But, will this system work to dry camp? Let's say, run the microwave five minutes per day (1100 watt), make a pot of drip coffee per day, run the water pump. And reasonably ...
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JiminDenver wrote:We go to festivals where power is unavailable and big rigs are running their gennies 24/7. We only run ours to power appliances and occasional ac. The puny 55amp battery does handle the lights so at this point, we do fine.
It will be many, many, seasons to recoup the cost of our solar and battery systems even if we went full time. That's not why we did it, we did it for the silence. A smaller system and using the generator dor the big loads would have been much more cost effective.
