You don’t need to hire a professional to plan a solar photovoltaic system for your RV. Using these steps, you can plan the perfect system on your own and calculate how long it will take to pay for itself.
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This guide is articulated in sections where each section explains a specific question.
- Estimate the Total Power You Need
- Calculate Your Total Power System Size and Cost
- Get an Estimate on Energy Savings and Payback
How can I increase the autonomy power of my motor home?
In a camper electricity and water are precious. We must therefore learn to save without depriving the indispensable.
To increase its autonomy, for example, you can install a solar panel. Who stays a week in the same place needs to find a way to recharge the batteries, and a good solution is the solar panel.
Be aware that they are expensive and fragile, just the branch of a tree to break, and is an additional weight.
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12 Volt Solar Battery Chargers are a convenient and lightweight alternative to charge portable applications such as:
- MP3 player
- Portable amplifier
- Sound speakers
- Cellular phone
- Digital camera
- LED lamps
- Smart Phone / PDA
- Game Player
- GPS
- Razors
- Gadgets
- Iphone / Ipod
- Nintendo DS
- Etc…
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The Deep Cycle batteries used in cars, RVs or Boats are designed to be discharged and then re-charged hundreds or thousands of times. These batteries are rated in Amp Hours (ah) – usually at 20 hours and 100 hours. Simply stated, amp hours refers to the amount of current – in amps – which can be supplied by the battery over the period of hours.
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Photovoltaic panels are a good source of portable power to use for our devices and gadgets. Latest generations of solar panels are more powerful and employ less time for charging….for a wise investment.
You can use this kind to power or use solar to charge batteries for Ipod, Iphone, Mp3 Players, sometimes a laptop (depending on output of the panel), remote field testing, surveillance, small TV/VCR, video recorders, work lights, RV and Boat batteries.
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The battery is the main component of your power station. Monitoring means knowing the state of charge in your battery. You can choose a voltmeter or use a purpose built monitoring system.
Using a 12 volt battery full of charge let’s say … 120 amp/hours.
If we measure the voltage of fully charged 12 volt battery with nothing connected it should be around 12.6 volts.
If we connect a reasonable load to the battery the voltage will drop to around 12.1 but the battery is still full of charge at this point.
If we connect a charging source to the battery, for example an 80 watt solar panel, the voltage will rise to about 15 – 16 volts.
If the battery was flat we might see the following:
- No load: 12 volts
- With load: 11.0 volts
- Charge connected: 13 volts
