RV Daily "5 Solar Facts You Can't Ignore"

The article touched on my experiences so far with solar pretty well. My personal experience is real world camping solar harvest is considerably lower than one would expect based on what you read on the internet (Shocking isn't it) I'm lucky in that thanks to my job, I interface daily with a lot of folks, into tech, and into RVing. As a result, I've been able to borrow half a dozen very expensive controllers to slave into my solar system this year. So far, my preference for parked out in the open would be all my panels hooked in series, mppt controller. For the realities of the camping I do, the better choice for getting the max charge back into the batteries is all panels in parallel, a PWM controller that doesn't tend to get confused with wildly varying shading issues throughout the day. I also found my power usage is the highest when solar harvesting tends to be the worst due to shading, clouds, time of year etc. As a result, I'm going to expand my system 400 more watts, and always assume the generator will be needed from time to time.

The above said, in the interest of science, I'm going to volunteer myself to retire early next year, and get out in my 5er a lot more often in the interests of gathering more data, and provide the definitive data to put this issue to rest for good.