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Dakota98
Explorer
Dec 14, 2014

Solar as battery maintenance during storage - opinions

Having suffered a neck injury, it has become difficult to lift anything 25 lbs or more & attempting to remove my batteries from the tongue of my TT is difficult at best. Currently, I keep them in the ...
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pianotuna
Nomad III
Dec 15, 2014
Hi,

I would not recommend 15 watts. It is not enough for winter time storage. It is costly per watt. I would recommend a minimum of 140 watts for 232 amp-hours of battery bank.

Sunforce is the "bottom of the barrel" for quality and the unit would not allow for much expansion of the system.

Consider 30 amp controller

and

twin 70 watt panels

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