Solar kit

Sorry, not much help here...in the same boat, looking at what to get. I will say that initially I was thinking mounted panels, however have done a bit of reading and advice is portable so you can keep them in the sun. Suitcase style seems to be the thing....if you don't mind I will follow along to see what others have to say....good luck.

The suitcase style makes sense. Hopefully someone will share some knowledge.

SWO Vette, I'll leave this here for a couple days if you don't get much help I'll move this discussion over to the Tech Issues forum.

If it's solar ready the first question would be what size wire did they use. The wire size will determine how many amps it will carry.

What do you expect of solar? There is no bad amount of solar and people often want more after they have used it. People will often do an energy audit to size the battery/batteries and solar. Tell us more about how you travel and camp.

Hi,

Start by reading this series of articles:

https://freecampsites.net/adding-solar/

SWO Vette wrote:
I getting a Fury 3110 and it will be solar ready. So......I guess I'd need to buy some solar panel if I wanted to use it. I haven't done much research on it yet as it will,have a generator. Any info would be appreciated

Suitcase makes sense only for the tiniest of systems.

I get more from my system in full shade that many of the portable systems. I also get charging in the rain. You also get charging as you travel. There is nothing to store, setup, or strike when making or breaking camp.

SWO Vette wrote:
The suitcase style makes sense. Hopefully someone will share some knowledge.

Only a couple hours left, amazons prime sale has renogy 100 watt panels for $95 and tilting mounts for $48.

I bought a dokio 100 watt suitcase and clinko adapter plug off amazon. i used it on a 1 week trip over the 4th, worked fine, easy to move around as the sun moves, mostly propped it up between the propane tanks and front of the trailer. hard to say how much it charged the batteries, but combined with some occasional generator use, never ran out of battery power, including watching movies and kids on the ps4 pretty much every day.seems like a nice way to top off the batts for a minimal investment.

I'd just use it to keep battery up when I'm gone on a day trip. Around here you have to use a generator to run the AC if you are going to use it in summer. On my current trailer all the battery does is keep the fridge running, water pump and heater going. If I had kept it I was going to get a inverter and wire it in so I could have a dedicated plug that would run a tv for,short periods. Other than charging the battery I can't see a great benefit as none of the outlets work when not in shore power.

Even more reason for a permanent fixed installation. You don't want the panels to go "walk about".

SWO Vette wrote:
I'd just use it to keep battery up when I'm gone on a day trip.