Solar or Generator for Boondocking
This is for a truck camper, no a/c. This would be to keep batteries charged. I was putting together a solar kit (on paper, for purchase at a later date) and started thinking about a generator and wh...
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A 2-1 ratio of watts to Ah is nice to have in shortened sun hours be it my conditions of cloudy afternoons or short winter hours. A single GT panel portable on a 8-D taken down to 50% can't provide enough amps to do the job in either case. Using the 2-1 system last year could. It's a simple numbers game, 1-1 just doesn't push a bank around.
I haven't taken our generator for years but will on longer trips from now on. No reason to take a chance of damaging the bank if the weather turns bad or the solar goes out.
I haven't taken our generator for years but will on longer trips from now on. No reason to take a chance of damaging the bank if the weather turns bad or the solar goes out.
