Thread: Solar Panel Ebay

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Originally Posted by DiscoMick
I have a 40 litre Engel and a 100amp battery in the camper and our 80 amp solar panels can keep it charged for about 5 days in winter (so the battery drops just under a quarter in 24 hours), hoping for more in summer.

80 watt ?

Yep, my bad, sorry, typed that in a hurry.

Re. the size, I would have bought 100 or 120 watt solar panels, but they wouldn't have fitted under the bed in the camper, so I'd have had to have carried them separately, which would have been a pain, so I chose the 80 watt folding because they will fit under the bed. It's one less thing to have to worry about packing before going away...

I suppose you need to decide if you are likely to want to stay in one place for more than a week without mains power, in which case the bigger panels the better, but if you're moving every few days the battery gets charged while driving, so its less of an issue.

Not on my vehicle but on our camper trailer we fitted an Anderson plug to the back of the fridge box and connected it to the Engel DC-DC battery charger which takes current from the solar panels, boosts it and then sends it to the battery. Pretty simple and works fine. Plug and forget while camped.