Basic Questions on Solar Install
I'm finally getting rid of the generator and looking to install solar. Right now I have a 2000W inverter and 450AH of lead acid batteries. I'm looking at installing (3) 175W panels and an MPPT charge ...
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freetheheal wrote:
Well there are a lot more considerations and opinions on solar than I imagined. What I ultimately decided was to go with 4 175W panels. There will be 2 at the very back on each side of the vent. Then one in front of the vent situated perpendicular to the trailer. And then one more between the A/C and the vent in the middle of the trailer. These will be installed in parallel and running 8awg wire from the panels to the combiner box that is at the front. From the combiner box I'm going to go through the roof and straight down to the charge controller with 4awg. We use the trailer quite a bit in the winter so hopefully this will be enough to let us dry camp without the generator for 4 or 5 days. Right now we can go about 2 days in the winter without the generator.
I'm 3-150w panels to the combiner with #10 then I ran #4 from the combiner to the controller in the pass thru then #2 from the controller to the 4-6v GC batteries. I camp for a week at a time in the dead of winter(18-24 degrees)run the furnace and a cpap. With good sun, some light clouds I'm topped up at 11:00 AM usually. We keep the trailer around 55-60 at night. You should be good
