I've been considering solar too -- until just a few days ago, Costco had a 60W kit for $300, which seemed quite a deal. It's not on the costco website any more, may still be in stock at local stores? The kit comes as four 15W panels, which is either a pro or con depending on what you wanted to do with them. By my calculations, 60W would be just enough to fully recharge your average optima deep cycle battery on a sunny day in the southern USA, so having 150W would be overkill -- 150W would only take about 3-4 hours of direct sun to deliver 450WH.
On Aug 15, 2006, at 3:47 AM, Dennis Haynes wrote: > Bring a lot of money. Basically, you will need 150 watts and a charge > controller. You are looking at spending ~$1,000 for this much power > and that > will only be available on sunny days. Then you need some good > batteries to > store that power to make it worthwhile. Why do you need that type > of juice? > > Dennis > > -----Original Message----- > From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com] On > Behalf Of > andy highland > Sent: Monday, August 14, 2006 9:00 PM > To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM > Subject: Any solar gurus out there? > > I'm hoping to acquire the components for a solar charging rig rather > quickly and could use some help. I want to come up with a rig that > will > provide 10A at 14.3V. > > Thanks, > -andy |
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