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Aug 19, 2013Explorer
Portable Solar
With all this talk of portable setups. It's got me thinking of one too. Here's the panels I'm interested in: Two 140W 12V panels. I saw where someone hinged a couple of panels together and put a handl...
BFL13 wrote:We camp at or near the beach mostly where the mornings can be completely overcast but the sun typically comes out before noon and stays that way for the rest of the day. Depends on the time of year though, sometimes the clouds come back in the evening. I bet I'd get a lot of edge of cloud effect (probably need to over do the controller). Our CG's aren't solar reliable so the best it could do is put back a decent amount of what we use. Inland has far more sun but we don't boondock there (much warmer, mostly urban). A smaller bank that could be charged in a couple of afternoons with lots of solar would probably work best. Or a larger bank with bank switching (solar on offline bank). This is interesting!!!
Right the panels stay sunny or not, but you can leave half your batts behind if that works better by season for being able to reach full most days.