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jimh406
Explorer III
Apr 12, 2017

How much solar power do you have, wish you had?

I'm thinking again about adding solar to my truck camper. I generally don't need it, but still, it would be a nice to have to keep the batteries charged. I have LEDs and this would be mostly to char...
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kohldad
Explorer III
Apr 13, 2017
My main reason for adding solar was to keep the battery charged while my camper was sitting in storage yard with the furnace running so I didn't have to winterize.

It also benefited while on the road allow me to use the furnace, fluroscent light (2a), plus charge phones and two laptop computers.

All of this is maintained with a single 100 watt panel and PWM controller.

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