Portable (suitcase) solar "install" question
I've gone back and forth on solar panels on the roof or portable. Well, due to a tight budget, portable is the only way I'm going to get solar for now and it makes sense for me to try it out 1st as we...
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Getting my feet wet with portable before mounting to the roof sounds like a really good plan to me. A lot of our camping is in the NYS Adirondack mnts, in deep shade, but the campground roads have some sun. Portable makes sense to me ... for the time being.
Also - I was told and price/system quoted by a few solar companies that I need 400-675w on the roof due to the shading potential. That's where the cost gets crazy for us. On average we use 60ah a day out of 2 gf batteries (230ah total/115ah usable). We currently use inverter gensets to recover what we've used and will continue since I'm fairly sure the 100-160w suitcase system won't do all of it (we don't camp in sunny enough areas).
Also - I was told and price/system quoted by a few solar companies that I need 400-675w on the roof due to the shading potential. That's where the cost gets crazy for us. On average we use 60ah a day out of 2 gf batteries (230ah total/115ah usable). We currently use inverter gensets to recover what we've used and will continue since I'm fairly sure the 100-160w suitcase system won't do all of it (we don't camp in sunny enough areas).
