Started Solar Array
I have to few lose ends to tie up but overall it came together good. The system will eventually have up to 5 panels totaling 800 watts and 4 EGC2 batteries. I have not yet decided if that will include...
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Searching_Ut wrote:
Nice start. Weather here in Utah is starting to get to the point where I should be climbing on the roof and finishing mine up in the next few weeks. Got the RV pad poured just prior to the weather turning bad in the fall, so now I have some place to work on the rig, which is too big to fit in the driveway. I'm going the dual SC 2030 route and have everything in the garage for upgrading to 10 Grape 100 Watt panels in two banks of 500 watts. Keeping all 10 panels in parallel should work out great for the widely varied sort of camping we do.
Keep posting with updates as you progress.
Where in Utah are ya, if you don't mind? I'm up in the Roy area. Yeah the weather has been awesome this week in the 70's. Stark change from the 30's a week or so ago. Makes it hard to go to work.
I was originally go to put 24 volt panels on the roof. On this roof however, the placement and angles wouldn't work as well as I would like. Putting the 160's on will still allow me to walk around the roof and if I decide to go with the Tristar MPPT instead of the dual SC-2030's I can still run series-parallel. I agree with the camping. Down in Moab we won't really see shading, but up in the Uinta's partial array shading will likely occur.
