The 750 watt hour plus weekend

Over a three day period, I generated and consumed over 750 watt hours of power using the solar panel on my truck. It’s been a hot and buggy weekend so many nights I was up late burning the lights into the wee hours of the day and running the fan to keep cool. But during that 72 hour period at camp I was able to keep my truck turned off and everything fully charged without problems entirely on solar. While my system is too small for powering a house or cabin it works great for camp power, and had no problems when it was relatively cloudy on Saturday.

100 Watt Panel

Photo: Isolator Relay
Photo: Battery 1
Photo: While not an ideal way to run power from the rooftop panel, this is tight, not bouncing, protected by heavy plastic conduit
Photo: This mess is the brains of the operation
Photo: Panel On Cap
Photo: Battery 2
Photo: Fan
Photo: Sun went under sun but still floating the battery
Photo: 100 Watt Panel
Photo: Voltage low, disconnect relay

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