Recommendations for "helper solar"

[rob_gendreau]

I use a 100 W panel, but it's portable. Fits in the van, and I can move it about 20' out from the van. So I can park in shade but have panel in the daylight, or even leave it at home (I the winter my fridge, which pulls 3.2A, doesn't need as much juice obviously).

Rob

[BroncoHauler]

If using a portable solar panel, here's a fun app to play with to help position the panel to take maximum advantage of the solar radiation.

By using the camera in your smartphone or tablet camera, the app will overlay the path of the sun on the camera's view.

Sun Surveyor
https://play.google.com/store/apps/deta ... eyor&hl=en


Herb

[PlayOutside]

Thanks everyone for chiming in here, and I have learned a lot along the way.

We have decided to get a simple solar starter kit, just to fill our needs for now and take more time to research a more serious set-up once the piggy bank has recovered from all the other "projects" the Mothership has received since we got her - almost exactly a year ago!

This is the kit we got: http://www.amazon.com/Solar-Panel-Start ... 736&sr=8-1

The hubby installed it (I am not technically gifted), and we have been running a portable swamp cooler plus the fridge all day yesterday without any loss of power in the house battery. Guess that's good news

[jonoslade]

All these posts are super helpful as i'm specing out my system. Thanks everyone!

Greg that Wiki page is amazing! Thanks for all the work you put into it.