Solar Panels

Hi Brian,

While there is plenty in the archives on this subject, you will need to know the following for a start

Average daily draw in Amp Hours

Then obviously your budget. Solar panels start at $260 plus for 20 watt which is really the bottom end of the requirements. A lot of forumites will agree with this and suggest lot bigger units.

Then you can size the deep cycle battery.

You should take a peek at the following site for info on deep cycle baateries and how they should be handled. I strongly recommend you take the trouble to print it out for further study. It is long but well worth it.

http://www.uuhome.de/william.darden/carfaq.htm

Hope this is enough to start.

I use 70 amp hour deep cycle (delkor) and a 20 watt solar panel and have been using this set up or similar for a number of years. But I only run lights and radio/cd player. Fridge is gas.

Cheers

Magnus

Brian.
As Magnus points out lost to consider. If you live in Bris I would be happy to help.

Have a good day.