wa8yxm wrote:
And where are you taking the readings? This is important.
Lights: LED lamps take very little power a quarter amp gives a good amount of light. Good old hot wire lamps. a 1156 draws over 2 full amps.
Our Blue Sky solar controller. We may not have 'exact' readings but I do know that one of my inverters always starts to scream when we hit 12.1v on the controller when it has any kind of load.
We use mostly LEDs. Our biggest draws at night are baseball games and discovery channel. The satellite dish/receiver and 32"tv draw about 5A per hour. Phantom loads (propane alarm and fridge on propane) draw .9A per hour. Of course, this is all based on our controller. YMMV. Right now, at 9AM, we are putting in 14AH and the batteries read 13.2V. Our batteries are 44AH below 'full.'
