Looking To Add Solar Down The Road
I am planning on adding solar down the road from now. Would like to see if I am on the right tract. I want to install three Kyocera 140 watt panels flat on top. Wired in parallel to a BlueSky 2000E, t...
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jhilley wrote:
I have pretty much the same setup as you are proposing. I have 3 Kyocera 135 watt panels wired to a combiner box on the roof and then 2 gauge wire to a Morningstar PWM 45 amp controller and then 2 gauge wire to the batteries. We use solar January through March in southern Arizona and have TVs and computer on all day and until about midnight. This year I added a Windy Nation 100 watt panel. We have no problem with charge from the panels, but we can only mount 3 Group 29 RV/Marine batteries. The batteries are our weak point. I will be moving the chassis battery so that we can mount 4 Trojan T-1275 and that should solve our problem.
Think hard before going with Trojan T-1275's. They are pretty high maintenance and need a lot of hand holding and high voltage to really get them fully charged, topped off, and equalized properly. They need a pretty high daily dosage of voltage to do so, moreso when the temps and the weather drop.
Just saying... the 6v GC2's like a T105 can and will save you a lot of battery baby sitting time if you dry camp a lot.
