More Solar for "Us"
Ok, I went off.the deep end? Bought 3 used 37watt uni-solar panels and a blue sky 2000e controller for the hefty price of $400, They were being listed as 75w panels, they are not The tested open...
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I had 100 watt panels that I took off the house that I moved from. From what I have been reading here on the net is that there seems to be two schools predominately. Trickle charge and re charge. So I have noticed that most who dive in for recharge go with 400+. I have a Morning Star controller, Bogart Engineering Tri Metric Battery Minder and they charge up two Trojan t-125 flooded wet cell batteries. The Tri Metric tells you your battery state, watts in, amps in and what kind of charge. The panels lie flat on the roof in full sun they deliver 8+/- amps with the sun over head. The meter indicates that we drawn down to 70-75%. It gets up to 88-90% quickly then levels off. The last bit to 100% takes the longest. This was with 3 college kids charging everything possible, phones ipads laptops, plus ours and we even got lazy and brought the electric drip coffee pot. The only other use and biggest draw is the water pump. I do have two more panels which will bring me to over 600 watts. I noticed that a fair amount for person here where they go to 400 increase to 600. I would like to add two more Trojans but Im getting close on the tongue weight.
