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Another wonderful day here at "camp awesome", so peaceful and a nice cool morning to start off the day. What's not to love?
We have had our 130 watt panel for 9 years now and sure does keep us charged pretty good with our 2 six volt trojan house batteries, but does take quite a while each day so another 100 watt panel will speed things up now we have a total of 230 watts charging our batteries. The battery capacity has been perfect but we would like to charge a bit faster and this should do the trick. mainly because I get up usually before 5 am and the sun is not up yet. And we do like to boon dock in the desert, actually even in many other places as well.
The install was so easy, about 90 minutes pretty well all done on the roof. but fiddling with the controller and connections took me a bit longer. Mind you the hot humid weather slowed me down, but heck what's the hurry?
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| New 100 watt panel is the smaller one at the front |
Now that she is home we catch up on the news with a cold refreshing beverage enjoy our e-readers for a while then begin to whip up supper.
Made a nice tasty salad while our Weber Q is preheating and grilled a couple of our favorite, healthy and gluten free Turkey garlic sausage. Gotta go to the market tomorrow and stock up on more Turkey sausage.
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| added some sauerkraut and really hit the spot |
Thanks for stopping in to say hi or take a peak.
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Good job on the mounting of the solar panel. That should really help with the charging.
ReplyDeleteThanks it is a worthwhile investment.
DeleteNice install of that panel, looks like you still have room for a couple more. :c)
ReplyDeleteThanks, we could put a lot more on the roof but really don't think we need it the one panel worked pretty good 2 will be much better, if we did more panels we would need more batteries.
DeleteWe have a roof full of solar panels and they do a pretty good job keeping us charged up in Arizona. I'm sure you'll notice the difference.
ReplyDeleteThis will be enough for us I am sure we got by on one panel for years so I know the other will sure help.
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ReplyDeleteIt was very tasty, thanks for stopping by.
DeleteJob well done George!
ReplyDeleteThanks it was fun too.
DeletePeaceful and nice is hard to beat. Nice job on the panel
ReplyDeleteIt sure is hard to beat.
DeleteNice job on the panel, it will make a difference.
ReplyDeleteThanks Croft I am sure it will.
DeleteOur neighbors with a new to them RV watched me install ours and were soon over to ask if they bought one, would I help install it. We should both hang out shingles.
DeleteYeah for sure can make good money, lol. I don't mind doing my own but that's about as far as it goes how about you?
DeleteThe wife is an awesome cook so I said for some beer and a meal, I would "supervise" and make the final connections while our friend and his son do the labour. LOL
DeleteNow that sounds like a good deal, maybe even some single malt thrown in after the fact !
DeleteGreat job, George. Sure is nice when you can do all the labor yourself.
ReplyDeleteThanks it saves a few bucks and you know its is done right.
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