How to measure how much solar we need?
(hope this is right section) Brought home TT last month and now have basics taken care of and RV is road ready. Now starting to think about bigger long term projects. One project is, we would like...
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You DO have an idea of how much power you use. How long did each pair last you? What were you doing to drain them and at what times of the day? What kind of batteries were they?
A power diet, the poor thing. We did that one trip, not acceptable. Nor was listening to a generator everyday. Having the solar means if it has a button and you feel like pushing it.... Well in fair weather anyways. In bad weather we trim back on the big loads and ride the batteries until we have to use the generator.(hasn't happened yet) When the sun does peak out again our three 24v panels tracking are good for 40-50a any time the sun shines.
Even running things like the the furnace every night, microwave, coffee pot, TV all day, even a small air conditioner we are only using a portion of the 5-600 AH the panels can do tracking on a good summer day. It will less once mounted but still more than we can use.
Power diet...heheheh
You DO have an idea of how much power you use. How long did each pair last you? What were you doing to drain them and at what times of the day? What kind of batteries were they?
A power diet, the poor thing. We did that one trip, not acceptable. Nor was listening to a generator everyday. Having the solar means if it has a button and you feel like pushing it.... Well in fair weather anyways. In bad weather we trim back on the big loads and ride the batteries until we have to use the generator.(hasn't happened yet) When the sun does peak out again our three 24v panels tracking are good for 40-50a any time the sun shines.
Even running things like the the furnace every night, microwave, coffee pot, TV all day, even a small air conditioner we are only using a portion of the 5-600 AH the panels can do tracking on a good summer day. It will less once mounted but still more than we can use.
Power diet...heheheh
