What can you do with solar?
Hi, Please reply with what your solar system can do to enhance your RV'ing experience. Please list the number of watts, Charge controller, inverter (if any) and amp-hours of battery bank 256 ...
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405 Watts of Kyocera solar panels (3X 135 watt), Rogue MPPT 3024 Charge Controller
4 ea group 27 Warehouse Store Batteries
Xantrex XADC 40 amp converter (mostly not used)
Xantrex True Charge 40 charger with temp compensation and remote
Xantrex 2000 watt inverter with remote
#4 welding wire throughout on Solar with about 35 ft from controller to panels and 18 inches from controller to batteries
Trimetric monitor
Mostly LED lighting with some flouresent. I have even replaced the camper outside area lighring with LED except for two.
We went on the first trip this year a couple of weeks ago to Southern Cal Sand dunes. I could have gone Gen free but we like to run the outside lights at night and the two recessed lights that I like run are power hogs. They are 35 watt each. My trimetric says they use about 6 amps total. Leave those on for 6 hours and that is 36 amp hours so I did run my 2 kw Kipor generator some in the evening to replace some of that but porbably didn't need to. I did just find 11 watt replacements bulbs so I am anxious to see if I can now go generator free.
I like to conserve but my wife could care less and I'll come back from a ride and find lights on in the daytime or all lights on if I come back from a night ride and no one in the camper. Oh well, I like to chose my battles and that one is just not worth the effort. I was going to really monitor my trimetric but I never looked at it as I was having too much fun otherwise. The lowest my batteries ever were is 12.5 in the AM. I am pretty pleased with that. It was cool enough that the heater was running some at night too. I can plug the camper into the inverter and turn off the chargers and we pretty much run like were are on shore power including microwave and single cup coffee brewer. We'll obviously need the 4kw generator for summer camping in AZ.
I now have covered RV storage with power so solar is not useful for battery maintanance so I am thinking of a single 100-150 watt solar panel mounted in the sun for battery maintenance. I am looking for a low cost 12V nominal panel in Arizona now.
4 ea group 27 Warehouse Store Batteries
Xantrex XADC 40 amp converter (mostly not used)
Xantrex True Charge 40 charger with temp compensation and remote
Xantrex 2000 watt inverter with remote
#4 welding wire throughout on Solar with about 35 ft from controller to panels and 18 inches from controller to batteries
Trimetric monitor
Mostly LED lighting with some flouresent. I have even replaced the camper outside area lighring with LED except for two.
We went on the first trip this year a couple of weeks ago to Southern Cal Sand dunes. I could have gone Gen free but we like to run the outside lights at night and the two recessed lights that I like run are power hogs. They are 35 watt each. My trimetric says they use about 6 amps total. Leave those on for 6 hours and that is 36 amp hours so I did run my 2 kw Kipor generator some in the evening to replace some of that but porbably didn't need to. I did just find 11 watt replacements bulbs so I am anxious to see if I can now go generator free.
I like to conserve but my wife could care less and I'll come back from a ride and find lights on in the daytime or all lights on if I come back from a night ride and no one in the camper. Oh well, I like to chose my battles and that one is just not worth the effort. I was going to really monitor my trimetric but I never looked at it as I was having too much fun otherwise. The lowest my batteries ever were is 12.5 in the AM. I am pretty pleased with that. It was cool enough that the heater was running some at night too. I can plug the camper into the inverter and turn off the chargers and we pretty much run like were are on shore power including microwave and single cup coffee brewer. We'll obviously need the 4kw generator for summer camping in AZ.
I now have covered RV storage with power so solar is not useful for battery maintanance so I am thinking of a single 100-150 watt solar panel mounted in the sun for battery maintenance. I am looking for a low cost 12V nominal panel in Arizona now.
