How Much solar to Add??
We dry camp as much as wet camp. I have tow Trojan T-125's up front providng a good long draw for 240ah. I am looking to keep these charged up. 300-400-500 Watts? Waterpump and heater are the two larg...
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RJsfishin wrote:
What do you want to hear, 500?
Camping in the coastal fog till noon, or Quartzsite Arizona ?
No one knows your life style, so how can anyone advise how many watts.
Canping summer or winter, or both ?
Are you going flat on the roof ?
Are you going portable w/ sun tracking.
Are you tilting ? 2 way, or 4 way.
Or are you going a full automatic tracking system ?
Is the sun shining 1/4 the time 1/2 3/4 ??
X2, and I do not agree at all with relating needed wattage of solar with AH of battery bank.
Your solar will replace your daily usage or not. It doesn't make any difference if that daily usage is 80-100% of SOC or 50-100% of SOC it is the same number of AH. You can have one or a dozen batteries, the solar required is the same.
Knowing you have solar may affect how many batteries you need though depending on where and when you camp off grid. Back to RJ on that for picking a scenario first.
