Solar crunch time! Please review my plan.

Fisherguy wrote:
You say his system would be marginal then say he'll be fine?

You are going to find that peoples opinion of solar are all over the map on this forum. One of the reasons for this is that everyone camps different so power needs very and another reason is guys just don't know but feel they need to post something which is usually regurgitated numbers and info from other posts.

All I can post is from what I know and I know that my Windynation 200 watt kit with cheap controller keeps my trailer up and running through 4 days of 30 degree weather with partly to mostly cloudy skies, lots of rain and some snow. I kept the heater on 60 during the night and ran it a few times during the day to keep the chill out of the unit. Each night the grandkid got to watch a movie on the TV powered through the inverter.

I was pulling between 30 and 60 AMP's a day into my batteries and my battery voltage never dropped below 12.0 volts which I figured was great considering the lack of sun and my solar panels being covered with snow until they melted off about noon. I need to rig up a extension handle with a snow push end so I can clear off my panels instead of waiting around for the sun to do it.

So from what I have experienced through two late fall hunting trips and an early spring camping trip is 200 watts takes care of my needs by keeping my trailer systems up and running and keeping me warm in weather down to zero degrees. I am going to add 2 100 watt panels to use as a portable set up for the times I park in the dark shade or during the Fall just to be able and get a little move out of the low sun angle.