Help with Basic Solar Set Up
After years of storing the TT at home we are thinking of moving to a smaller home and putting the TT in a storage lot. One of the luxuries of parking at home is being able to stay plugged in year rou...
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If you have the eu2000i and the PD4655, and 232 ah battery, and you are at 75% at bed time... call it 240 amps for ease of math... You used 60 amps... and while asleep, is the heater with a fan running? or not? Makes a big difference. You'll use another 10 amps parasitic, just over night. now you're at 70 amps. Plus lights, what kind of lights are you running? Laptop being recharged too? or cell phone, over night? Let's for arguements sake, call it 80 amps... you're at 66% come morning. Maybe more, maybe less.
With a good short run of wiring and your charge controller at 14.4 volts, with the force mode on the charge wizard, you should be close to 85 or 90% charged in 90 minutes, is my guess. You still need to add 24 amps. No problem with a 120 portable Watt panel in 5 to 6 hours of sun, at 6.5 to 7 amp hours in spring, summer and fall. Not so much winter. You might get 5 to 6 hours of charging in winter time, with the sun low on the horizon, unless you've got some snow cover.
With a good short run of wiring and your charge controller at 14.4 volts, with the force mode on the charge wizard, you should be close to 85 or 90% charged in 90 minutes, is my guess. You still need to add 24 amps. No problem with a 120 portable Watt panel in 5 to 6 hours of sun, at 6.5 to 7 amp hours in spring, summer and fall. Not so much winter. You might get 5 to 6 hours of charging in winter time, with the sun low on the horizon, unless you've got some snow cover.
