solar panel choice
hello world, Noob here. Looking at 2 systems about 400 each. Ningbo NEW 150w MONO panel charge controller 20ft UV burial cable mounting brackets http://www3.telus.net/public/tps.x/pdf/150W...
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Papsolar was the guy I was thinking of on the Mainland.
We are on our site up-Island now off and on, so my internet activity is spotty. Once in a while I catch up. Got to watch the time on my Telus key gizmo! :)
I don't know what your camping situation is for the period this summer, but we get by just fine on four batteries and in summer about 200w solar is plenty, where the panels are pointed South and tilted up about 25 to 30 degrees. You can do better if they are mounted in a swivel contraption, but that is not really necessary.
Many folks just do "portable" and stick their panels out pointed South propped up on a lawn chair or whatever. You don't need anything fancy and "proper" to get by in the solar racket.
That 200w is based on using the furnace for maybe half an hour in the early morning per summer routine, and so 50-70AH usage /day including some minutes of 100amp draws on inverter for kettle , toaster, and microwave, with also a couple hours of Tv/dvd thrown in. (On mostly nice days--once in a while in summer here, solar gets behind, so you have to run the gen and converter /charger to catch up)
No point in getting "extra" solar for those cloudy days either. When it is cloudy, it doesn't matter how much solar you have--none of it works!
I am a big PWM fan and consider MPPT an expensive "fashion" designed to empty your wallet more than fill your battery bank. :(
I bet you could get by just fine with a pair of 100w panels, a 20 amp controller, and some jumper cables for wire from panels to battery--and a lawn chair to prop up the panels of course! :)
We are on our site up-Island now off and on, so my internet activity is spotty. Once in a while I catch up. Got to watch the time on my Telus key gizmo! :)
I don't know what your camping situation is for the period this summer, but we get by just fine on four batteries and in summer about 200w solar is plenty, where the panels are pointed South and tilted up about 25 to 30 degrees. You can do better if they are mounted in a swivel contraption, but that is not really necessary.
Many folks just do "portable" and stick their panels out pointed South propped up on a lawn chair or whatever. You don't need anything fancy and "proper" to get by in the solar racket.
That 200w is based on using the furnace for maybe half an hour in the early morning per summer routine, and so 50-70AH usage /day including some minutes of 100amp draws on inverter for kettle , toaster, and microwave, with also a couple hours of Tv/dvd thrown in. (On mostly nice days--once in a while in summer here, solar gets behind, so you have to run the gen and converter /charger to catch up)
No point in getting "extra" solar for those cloudy days either. When it is cloudy, it doesn't matter how much solar you have--none of it works!
I am a big PWM fan and consider MPPT an expensive "fashion" designed to empty your wallet more than fill your battery bank. :(
I bet you could get by just fine with a pair of 100w panels, a 20 amp controller, and some jumper cables for wire from panels to battery--and a lawn chair to prop up the panels of course! :)
