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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Almot wrote:Canadian Rainbirds wrote:
My solar, 420 Watts, and 484 AH of battery is almost enough for the winter in Mexico (without AC) and the same up here in the summer if we're not under the trees.
Yep. Minimum 500W for winter in Mexico or summer in BC-WA. Make it 700-1000W to be able to camp in partial shade too.
Winter in WA, on solar, jeez... I can survive on zero watts when it's warm and dry in daytime. When it's 40F in the night AND in the day and rains non-stop for a week - I wouldn't even try living without 110V grid, or a wood burning stove, or a generator.
To live the same way for microwave etc, exact same standard of living, with our rig (a barn to heat) it takes 200AH/day at 35F in February. But it takes maybe 70AH day to do the same in summer at 80F out in the open (long warm days means few lights and little furnace)
We have 230W of solar in a tracking contraption and get by with very few generator runs (only due to poor weather at times) from May to September. 230w tracking there, then, would be like 370w flat.
