Tested my new Solar Panel today
Purchased a NewPowa 150 Watt 12 volt panel on Amazon for 159.00 figuring that all the talk about raising tariffs mean prices will be going up soon. It was shipped for free and came well packaged and p...
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A single 150 might be all that will fit on that Dodge van he has.
Not much room or weight allowance with that. What can be done, is tow a small cargo trailer. It has a tiny tongue weight, and it can take the weight of more batteries and can have a solar panel on its roof too. You can take along a Honda 2000 Gen and a decent battery charger, too.
You put a 2000W inverter in the cargo trailer with those batts, and just plug the van's shore power cord into the cargo trailer's 2000w inverter as your "shore power."
At least one of our members here does that, with good success.
EDIT-- Almot makes a good point. It is all about solar conditions. Here in summer, EG, a guy next to us in the campground had a 160w on his roof for the period from mid-April till end Sep. Very seldom had to run his gen the way they live.
Meanwhile, we used about twice the DC AH they did (We are such DC pigs! :) ) But had twice as much solar, so we also hardly ever needed to run our gen.
In winter, the solar would have been near useless here, so neither one of us could have kept going without a lot of generator/charger time.
I would have been no better off with my twice as much solar has he has. No sun means no sun on any amount of panel wattage.
Not much room or weight allowance with that. What can be done, is tow a small cargo trailer. It has a tiny tongue weight, and it can take the weight of more batteries and can have a solar panel on its roof too. You can take along a Honda 2000 Gen and a decent battery charger, too.
You put a 2000W inverter in the cargo trailer with those batts, and just plug the van's shore power cord into the cargo trailer's 2000w inverter as your "shore power."
At least one of our members here does that, with good success.
EDIT-- Almot makes a good point. It is all about solar conditions. Here in summer, EG, a guy next to us in the campground had a 160w on his roof for the period from mid-April till end Sep. Very seldom had to run his gen the way they live.
Meanwhile, we used about twice the DC AH they did (We are such DC pigs! :) ) But had twice as much solar, so we also hardly ever needed to run our gen.
In winter, the solar would have been near useless here, so neither one of us could have kept going without a lot of generator/charger time.
I would have been no better off with my twice as much solar has he has. No sun means no sun on any amount of panel wattage.
