adding solar before trip
So I got a Renogy RNG-100D solar kit to get started,but I have a question,the wall in my 2007 Okanagan says it's prewired for solar what does that exactly mean to me. I have changed all the bulbs to L...
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billtex wrote:bigfootford wrote:
1 100ah AGM Lifeline battery.
We have led lights, a wave 3 heater, LED tv.... We use 15-20 ah a day.
We only use the furnace for quick warm up, It gobbles battery amps.
We watch tv about 2 hrs a night, read for an hr or more, charge our laptops/cell phones etc.
Unless we are in a dense forest or dead of winter and heavy cloud cover we easily recover our used AH by noon or better.
We do have our honda 2000 if needed.
We do not charge from the truck although I can... Just throw a switch.
Jim
That is a LOT to ask of 1 battery...if you upped your available amp hrs you would be better off.
Well if I were to use over 40 ah per day maybe. But we never use over 25...
There are quite a few of us doing it... Redog1 ran a 1 lifeline 100ah for 7+ years on 130 watts of solar. That battery died and he replaced it with a Universal Power group 100ah...
My Lifeline is now 6 years old and still has spec capacity. It has never seen a discharge past 40%.... I keep track of how many AH my battery has produced since I installed it... +5,000 AH
I does get used!
Last Summer we did 8K miles to Alaska/Prudhoe Bay and back... Never charged on shore nor ran the gen to charge. Lots of winter trips to Portland rain and snow.
Jim
