How much solar do I need?
I’m posting for a friend. Let’s say you have 6-6 volt golf cart batteries and looking for enough solar power to keep the basics in a 32’ trailer going through the winter months. The camper is being us...
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2oldman wrote:theoldwizard1 wrote:I wouldn't want to brave an ID winter with just that for heat.
It is heated by a wood stove so there is no furnace.
I grew up in Vermont in a house with a wood stove for heat. ID winters are probably a wee bit more severe than VT winters, but it seems close enough to me. We did have electric heat in the house that we never used (for all practical purposes, at least). It is a comparatively large amount of work, what with stacking and fetching in the wood, and not very amenable to being left on its own for a week's vacation, but otherwise about as reliable as any heat source. It didn't seem to me like there was much bravery involved.
I was the youngest of the children, and a year before I headed off to college, my mom realized that when I was gone she would have to haul in all the wood, and got an oil fired hot water heating plant installed. (Also factoring into that decision was the fact that the stove was getting pretty well worn out and would have needed replacement before too long.)
