Solar panel shading
With 1,280 watts of solar I don't worry to much about getting enough solar. This time of the year with the days getting shorter and we're in the national forest boondocking catching light shadows fro...
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Itinerant1 wrote:
With the inverter and misc charging of phone, laptop or tablet there is always some small load (2-8ah). The battery bank normally gets back to 95-100% even after a couple/ few days of playing catch up but in this location it's been getting to 70% (350ah) by sundown and after the evening dinner, tv and morning breakfast/ coffee making the bank could be down to 35-40% (175-200ah).
That's what seemed odd to me that I wasn't gaining back the lost power after a couple days of heavy overcast and snow. The way I'm parked and the path of the sun is enough for the antenna shadow to stay on the panels a fair amount of the day.
This is where the Li batteries come into their own--they can get by without being fully recharged. "Normal" batteries would be in trouble. Big bucks for Li though.
