High efficiency solar panel - Spring 2013
As of Spring 2013, what high efficiency solar panel do you opinion offers the best performance for the dollar? And where do you purchase them in less than pallet lots? Thanks Woody
Forum Discussion
If you are putting the panels on the ground mounted to a rack then size is unimportant. If you are mounting one or more to the roof of an RV then you will find that with most RV's the largest panel(s) that will fit or ones narrower than the standard residential panel which is 40" wide. You may not have room for the standard 60" panel length either.
I started with measuring my roof spaces to determine how large a panel would fit in each space without it being shaded by the TV antenna, AC shroud, roof rack, and other things protruding above the roof. When I checked out the RV solar companies that sold PV's by the individual panel and the sizes my list became a very short one. A secondary consideration is that if you are using different PV models that you match their Voc within 0.5 volts.
The most efficient panesl are those made for the commercial market, and these are not available for residential use. The best residential panels are not being sold by any of the RV solar dealers as these dealers do not qualify and the panel manufacturers don't want to sell in such small quantities to thousands of RV shops across the country and have no control over how their panels are installed and used.
I started with measuring my roof spaces to determine how large a panel would fit in each space without it being shaded by the TV antenna, AC shroud, roof rack, and other things protruding above the roof. When I checked out the RV solar companies that sold PV's by the individual panel and the sizes my list became a very short one. A secondary consideration is that if you are using different PV models that you match their Voc within 0.5 volts.
The most efficient panesl are those made for the commercial market, and these are not available for residential use. The best residential panels are not being sold by any of the RV solar dealers as these dealers do not qualify and the panel manufacturers don't want to sell in such small quantities to thousands of RV shops across the country and have no control over how their panels are installed and used.
