Going Solar!
Hi, new to this forum. I am a many years of experience Travel Trailer type RV-er. We do most of our camping "dry" with out hook ups. My wife and I are getting ready to buy a new trailer that will c...
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Hi Vintage,
My furnace consumes 9 amps. If assuming an 9 hour night and a 1:3 duty cycle, that works out to 27 amp-hours.
At 85 watt panel based on a 5 hour harvest is only going to "do" about 35 amp-hours. That leaves nothing for lighting, other items and parasitic loads.
I fear your dealer does not really understand much about solar. You need to do a serious energy audit.
My furnace consumes 9 amps. If assuming an 9 hour night and a 1:3 duty cycle, that works out to 27 amp-hours.
At 85 watt panel based on a 5 hour harvest is only going to "do" about 35 amp-hours. That leaves nothing for lighting, other items and parasitic loads.
I fear your dealer does not really understand much about solar. You need to do a serious energy audit.
Vintage465 wrote:
4. The main reason I want Solar is to replenish the batteries after a night of running the heater.
8. Not really even thinking of an inverter except maybe to run my C-pap at night. If you want the humidifier to work it need 110v. Don't eve know if that is plausible, but as it stands that would be the only reason now.
Talking to the dealer who apparently is a real solar geek, said he would add another 85w panel, 2 6v deep cycle golf cart batteries and the fancy, convert to amp from watt controller. He commented that since this unit comes pre-wired with the quick connects, adding the 85w would be a snap. I think he knows the business pretty well.
Thanks
V-465
