POPUPs with Solar Panels added to roof
Would like to see some photos of POPUPs with SOLAR PANELs added to the roof area. I am in the very early stage of looking into installing SOLAR PANELS on my Starcraft 14RT Off-Road POPUP roof. M...
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Shadow Catcher - I hear these success reports all the time. I'm pretty sure I could be successful too with what I have if I stuck with the just the basics.
Unfortunately for me that's usually not an option as my daily battery draw is pretty heavy. We consistently draw around 130AHs from our battery bank each day/night run. Between Momabears toys and my Radio Comms battery power goes away rather quick. I monitor all of this all the time with my present battery monitoring setup and the math just doesn't add up for me to run just off the solar panels. I draw more amps from all of the toys than three 120WATT/140WATT solar panels would be able to replace in a ONE SUN DAY event based on an average of 6-8AMPS of usable DC power from a single solar panel for around 6 hours being in the high sun..
The extreme of this is like going back to the tent camping days where you survived a three to four camping experience with a bag full of D-CELLS and white gas for the lanterns... Everyone ran around with their own flashlight and alot of candles got used. Altho these were fun times back then things has changed abit for us camping now with all of the modern day appliances available to use. hehe...
I'm sure once I get setup and start playing with what works best things will change somewhat on what gets used during the one day/nite battery run. My deadline is around 4PM each day to determine if have enough battery power is available to make it to 8AM the next morning. This is the latest I can go each day and still be legally able to run my generator for a three hour smart mode re-charge of the batteries. Experience tells me I have to be at the 90% charge state on the batteries before I start my day/nite battery run each day or I won't make it haha...
Roy Ken
Unfortunately for me that's usually not an option as my daily battery draw is pretty heavy. We consistently draw around 130AHs from our battery bank each day/night run. Between Momabears toys and my Radio Comms battery power goes away rather quick. I monitor all of this all the time with my present battery monitoring setup and the math just doesn't add up for me to run just off the solar panels. I draw more amps from all of the toys than three 120WATT/140WATT solar panels would be able to replace in a ONE SUN DAY event based on an average of 6-8AMPS of usable DC power from a single solar panel for around 6 hours being in the high sun..
The extreme of this is like going back to the tent camping days where you survived a three to four camping experience with a bag full of D-CELLS and white gas for the lanterns... Everyone ran around with their own flashlight and alot of candles got used. Altho these were fun times back then things has changed abit for us camping now with all of the modern day appliances available to use. hehe...
I'm sure once I get setup and start playing with what works best things will change somewhat on what gets used during the one day/nite battery run. My deadline is around 4PM each day to determine if have enough battery power is available to make it to 8AM the next morning. This is the latest I can go each day and still be legally able to run my generator for a three hour smart mode re-charge of the batteries. Experience tells me I have to be at the 90% charge state on the batteries before I start my day/nite battery run each day or I won't make it haha...
Roy Ken
