RV NET solar install?
Ricently purchased a new to us 07 Discovery with a full slide. Looking to full time in the NEAR future. Would like to start planning my solar install. I have a large 8x9 foof area over the bedroom th...
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Get more out of this forum that Solar Panel Forum. That forum is more about personalities than exchanges of information. Started following the threads in Northern Arizona and there are some good discussions there as well. There are things one can do with solar in hot weather but they are limited (just get out of Dodge is perhaps the best answer). Really cannot do much with full shade. We can fully charge in two hours at 1000 to 1300 W charge rate with mid-summer full insolation, so we try to site ourselves where we can fully charge in the morning and be in the shade in the afternoon (it sometimes works).
The main information from Handybob is power frugality. Most folks that RV would be quite happy with the level of solar with which he works. Brian Appleby tied up with us for a few hours two weeks ago near Glacier and we got some good ideas: some beliefs were reinforced, others were brought into question, and there were new ideas floated. Something always happens in discussions with informed and experienced boondockers who use some solar to those that are solar autonomous.
Sometimes we learn quite a bit from folks that do things incorrectly or even dangerously as in, "we shall make sure we don't do that!" We still have a minor quirk to rectify in our system and son says he knows what needs to be done when we visit in October. Had several questions on theory/fabrication on our system but he and family are currently in Mexico for a week to put solar panels on homes in a church related "Habitat for Humanity" type program.
Reed and Elaine
The main information from Handybob is power frugality. Most folks that RV would be quite happy with the level of solar with which he works. Brian Appleby tied up with us for a few hours two weeks ago near Glacier and we got some good ideas: some beliefs were reinforced, others were brought into question, and there were new ideas floated. Something always happens in discussions with informed and experienced boondockers who use some solar to those that are solar autonomous.
Sometimes we learn quite a bit from folks that do things incorrectly or even dangerously as in, "we shall make sure we don't do that!" We still have a minor quirk to rectify in our system and son says he knows what needs to be done when we visit in October. Had several questions on theory/fabrication on our system but he and family are currently in Mexico for a week to put solar panels on homes in a church related "Habitat for Humanity" type program.
Reed and Elaine
