Solar. What Can It Do?
We've got dual batteries on our camper and 90% of our trips are with electric sites. The other 10% of our trips are dry camping and we take along our Honda 2000. I've also got a 300W PSW inverter ho...
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I learned fast forty years ago living in the Sierra Nevada mountains of California. High heat came around the 20th of August. At 7,000 ft the daytime temp climbed into the mid-nineties. So I packed up fishing gear, lunch, a mercury thermometer and a malamute.
High, higher, then really high I first drove then hiked. Finally at Gardiski lake, I tossed the pack into the shade of a stunted pine, sat down and proceeded to catch 10 small brook trout. Out came the grille, and between the dog and myself we downed them all then proceeded to catch another 10 for trout sandwiches the next day.
It was hot! I reached into the pack and extracted the thermometer. Eighty-eight degrees! We headed back down the switchback trail to blazing summer temps. At altitude the sun seems to "burn" more. That night, back home the temp managed to drop to 78 degrees. The news claimed the freezing level was above 19,000 ft.
There are so many permutations of possible loads / time, versus lifestyles that I treat broad-brush statements like my friends "My C-20 4X4 gets 19-mpg". It's possible. Heading down off of Donner Summit driving 45 mph with a 40 knot tail wind.
The reason that clear statements should be taken with a grain of salt is a reader may copy such a system then find out everything from wire to controller needs to be upgraded for his lifestyle and if the upgrade demands MPPT 100% of his purchase was made in vain. It's like a tow vehicle claim "Well, ah tows my 9,000 lb fifth wheel and ah don't need no stinkin' high horsepower engine"
Where do you live sir?
Virginia
And your advice applies to folks living in Colorado, the Cascades and the Sierra Nevada?
Sure. Why shouldn't it?
Ever been there?
Ah don't need to go there
High, higher, then really high I first drove then hiked. Finally at Gardiski lake, I tossed the pack into the shade of a stunted pine, sat down and proceeded to catch 10 small brook trout. Out came the grille, and between the dog and myself we downed them all then proceeded to catch another 10 for trout sandwiches the next day.
It was hot! I reached into the pack and extracted the thermometer. Eighty-eight degrees! We headed back down the switchback trail to blazing summer temps. At altitude the sun seems to "burn" more. That night, back home the temp managed to drop to 78 degrees. The news claimed the freezing level was above 19,000 ft.
There are so many permutations of possible loads / time, versus lifestyles that I treat broad-brush statements like my friends "My C-20 4X4 gets 19-mpg". It's possible. Heading down off of Donner Summit driving 45 mph with a 40 knot tail wind.
The reason that clear statements should be taken with a grain of salt is a reader may copy such a system then find out everything from wire to controller needs to be upgraded for his lifestyle and if the upgrade demands MPPT 100% of his purchase was made in vain. It's like a tow vehicle claim "Well, ah tows my 9,000 lb fifth wheel and ah don't need no stinkin' high horsepower engine"
Where do you live sir?
Virginia
And your advice applies to folks living in Colorado, the Cascades and the Sierra Nevada?
Sure. Why shouldn't it?
Ever been there?
Ah don't need to go there
