Solar Panels Brands - does it matter?
I am looking to buy 200-300 watts of solar panels to charge 200-240 ah of battery storage. Researching panels on the web, it seems that prices for solar panels have a very wide range. Putting aside ...
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With 600 solar and 300 battery you can run a lot of things during the daytime when the batteries will charge up early in the day anyway, but not so much at night. The 2000 inverter will run ok on the 300 AGM batteries as long as the batts don't get drained too much by other stuff.
You will get used to running all your stuff as though the sun is shining. Problem comes with cloudy days and you still want to run all that stuff and you only have 300 battery. You will have to keep changing your camping lifestyle according to the weatherman's whims. Feast or famine. Or substitute hours of gen time for solar on cloudy days
IMO you should have more battery or less solar so you don't get used to having so much solar and keep getting caught with not enough battery to do what you want.
smk with 675 solar (and four batts) says he could have done as well with a 45 instead of the more expensive 60 controller.
You will get used to running all your stuff as though the sun is shining. Problem comes with cloudy days and you still want to run all that stuff and you only have 300 battery. You will have to keep changing your camping lifestyle according to the weatherman's whims. Feast or famine. Or substitute hours of gen time for solar on cloudy days
IMO you should have more battery or less solar so you don't get used to having so much solar and keep getting caught with not enough battery to do what you want.
smk with 675 solar (and four batts) says he could have done as well with a 45 instead of the more expensive 60 controller.
