| [GMCnet] Solar Panel Updates [message #245145] |
Wed, 26 March 2014 09:09  |
Peter Garry
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Registered: July 2011
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Steve Adams noted that he has reduced his electrical loads so he could boondock for a week at a time. It is important to balance the demand with the supply and it is best to start on the demand side. In our North American lifestyles we tend to add electrical loads willy nilly and then just get bigger and bigger systems to generate the power needed. Motor homes are really bad at doing this, just look at those SOBs. Lifestyle in a motorhome can be made a balance between electrical needs and electrical generating. Those of you in the humid areas need compressor type air conditioners and that should be the largest load. In the west with hot dry air a 12volt swamp cooler should work. Can all the other electrical loads be supplied by a solar powered battery system? I think so, and will be going in that direction.
So here's my question. Has anybody worked out such a system? If so what battery capacity and what size photo voltaic cells were used?
Peter Garry
'73~ 23'. once a painted desert
Calgary Alberta
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