How Much Solar ? First Hand Report
Just got set up here in Quartzsite, two 100 watt solar panels on my receiver hitch mounted polar mount, moving it 3 times during the day. Panes were partly shaded by an old power pole till 9 am, then...
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There is a huge difference doing 80-98s on solar from doing 50-90s wrt progressive capacity loss. You hardly notice a thing on solar like that.
You could get sucked in to going way too long getting only to 98% every time and when you finally do get it done to 100, you find that your 100 of what? now is less in AH capacity than your 100 of what it was before.
Eventually your batts lose capacity anyway, so you are just delaying things. Might not be worth the bother. If a battery lasts ten years and that means (according to some definitions) it is down to 50% capacity from new, then that is 5% lost per year. So a two year old battery could be down 10% in normal service anyway.
You could get sucked in to going way too long getting only to 98% every time and when you finally do get it done to 100, you find that your 100 of what? now is less in AH capacity than your 100 of what it was before.
Eventually your batts lose capacity anyway, so you are just delaying things. Might not be worth the bother. If a battery lasts ten years and that means (according to some definitions) it is down to 50% capacity from new, then that is 5% lost per year. So a two year old battery could be down 10% in normal service anyway.
