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bob_b1
Explorer
Nov 04, 2013

The Norcold broke (again) and I am going with a Residential.

My Norcold 682 model has had the cooling unit replaced once, the eyebrow board once, the temp probe once and the ignition module twice. The ignition module is now shot and I refuse to put more good mo...
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Almot
Explorer III
Mar 25, 2014
California or not, 10 cu.ft frig with inverter will draw ~100 AH. With other loads it will be ~140 AH a day for somebody who does try to conserve, and +200 AH for somebody who doesn't. This sounds to me like 600-700W panel in the areas that are mostly sunny and more watts where it's not too sunny.

As I recall, in Baja in winter I had about 10 hours from sunrise to sunset, and 490W array couldn't harvest more than 120 AH on the coolest and sunniest day.

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