Anyone got solar?

[cvc]

What wattage is your panel? Do you have a single 12 volt battery, two 12 volt batteries, or two 6 volt batteries? Does the system meet your demands? If you had it to do over, what would you change?

If you don't have solar, how do you replinish the battery(s) when camping or in storage?

Thanks for your input,
cvc

 

[OutbacKamper]

Previous thread on this subject:
http://www.wanderthewest.com/forum/showthread.php?t=153

Cheers
Mark

 

[benburnett]

solar panel

The one thing mentioned in that thread is the watt usage of a refer. If you have a 3 way that is not a concern as it will run on propane while you are camping.

Good info though. Will look into the differnt size panels tomorrow for you and get the different prices for them.

Sincerely,

Ben
www.allterraincampers.com

 

[smileyd]

We are gonna bring a really quiet generator to replenish our battery.

Dont forget about the converter/inverter

 

[captainkettel]

Only problem with running a propane fridge is I believe your rig has to be pretty much level or it doesn't work worth a darn. Unless the design has changed in the past couple of years. Also you can run a 12V fridge while your traveling and I know it's not recommended to use propane while your traveling...

 

[jimjxsn]

If you don't have solar, how do you replinish the battery(s) when camping or in storage?

You could mount the camper battery in the truck as a second battery and it would be fully charged whenever you load the camper. The problem I had with the trailers is that whenever I got the trailers out of storage the battery was dead.

 

[homemade]

For what it might be worth, probably not much:

I usually charge/maintain my batteries (I use for trolling motor and kids use with inverter to play video games when camping, nothing much more) at home with a small inexpensive 1.5amp slow charger, it turns itself off when the battery is fully charged and back on again when the charge drops, so the battery charge is mantained without overcharging or boiling off the battery. I think it cost