Almot wrote:Heelshock wrote:
Will it, in the least, slow the discharge down? As I said, we only go dry camping 2 or 3 nights at a time.
It will slow it very little and with 2 batts and 2 days of camping you can live without it.
25W will collect up to 8 AH a day, let's say 7 Ah after covering self-discharge. Your needs, with those minimal items listed above, are around 30-40 AH a day. So the battery is losing charge at the rate of 23-33 AH on a good sunny day, and 30-40 AH on a rainy day. 2*100 AH batts will give you 100 AH of usable energy.
So you can camp 2 days in the worst rainy season without solar, or 3-4 days with 25W solar IF it's nice and sunny
