Ready to jump into solar!!

Almot wrote:

harold1946 wrote:
The AGS will maintain the battery bank and supply power to run the ac as needed, hands off.

I imagine this thing starting at 2 am and waking me up. Would probably go to the store and demanded my money back, plus $$ for emotional stress :)... It's easy enough to eliminate the very need in AC, other than low-current loads like TV (and those are not even worth mentioning).

The only thing that you can't have without a generator (in a trailer) is airconditioner. All other loads are a matter of balance between energy consumption and production. Below latitude 30 my 2 high-voltage panels collect 30 AH in overcast in winter. Make it 4 panels and you have 60 AH, enough or almost enough for lights, TV or laptop, heat and 5-6 cu.ft 12V fridge - depends on laptop time and outside temperature (don't forget, it's winter collection and winter temperatures). Get 500 AH battery bank and you have enough to live on for 3-4 days without any solar, or 3-4 weeks of partial solar harvest (i.e. when solar collection covers 80-90% of consumption but not 100%). If you live in location where partial clouds are every day and all summer long, it's tough. If you can't balance the consumption side, this is - usually - the toughest.

If you were boondocking in an area where the night time lows were in the 80 - 90F range you would wish there was an AGS. If boondocking with daytime temperatures in the 100F range, likewise the AGS will cover that also.
Being fulltimers,we do not conserve " balance consumption". We live and do the same things we did in the S&B. The great part is we can do it anywhere we please and in most weather conditions.
I do not need to get a 500 AH battery bank. I have 900 AH.
Any time the comsumption exceeds the production of power my AGS will compensate.