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10-24-2016, 06:15 PM
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How many solar panels your ORV?
How many on your roof and do you use ground deployed solar?
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Midnight Blue
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10-24-2016, 06:52 PM
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Outdoors RV Owners Club
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2 x 150 watt panels roof mounted, I have a 2 x 100 watt portable that I use with my TC.
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10-24-2016, 07:01 PM
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Outdoors RV Owners Club
Join Date: Dec 2014
Location: NorthEastern Oregon
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2 x 100w. Roof mounted.
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2013 Wind River 280RLS, 200W Solar
2013 Ram 2500 Laramie Cummins 4x4
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10-24-2016, 07:10 PM
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Location: Coldstream,BC
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3x160W panels just installed on roof and 10W panel wired directly to the batteries that came with the RV.
Dave
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10-24-2016, 07:15 PM
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Fleetwood Owners Club Ford Super Duty Owner
Join Date: Jun 2012
Location: SoCal
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Previous coach had 600w on the roof and 200w i could set our portable when needed. All 100w panels.
Planning to install 1400-1600w on the current coach, along with retaining the capability of the 200w portable.
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Vince and Susan
2011 Tiffin Phaeton 40QTH (Cummins ISC/Freightliner)
Flat towing a modified 2005 Jeep (Rubicon Wrangler)
Previously a 2002 Fleetwood Pace Arrow 37A and a 1995 Safari Trek 2830.
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10-24-2016, 07:48 PM
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What brand and type?... poly or mono? I'm looking at renogy 100 watt 4 panels for roof and 2 for ground...with back up gen 2 x 2000 watt sine wave, to tie into my system. .I want to boondock with out worry/ any suggestions?
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2000 2500 chevy 4x4 3/4 ton
3.73 rear 6.0 liter
Midnight Blue
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10-24-2016, 08:04 PM
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Fleetwood Owners Club Ford Super Duty Owner
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Need to start with usage assessment. Or just go big capacity, as panels are pretty cheap now. (-:
We are heavy user. 600w was ok with four batteries. Going bigger with new coach due to RR and to have ample capacity. 8 batteries planned.
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Vince and Susan
2011 Tiffin Phaeton 40QTH (Cummins ISC/Freightliner)
Flat towing a modified 2005 Jeep (Rubicon Wrangler)
Previously a 2002 Fleetwood Pace Arrow 37A and a 1995 Safari Trek 2830.
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10-24-2016, 08:07 PM
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or just go big...if I'm out in the middle of nowhere. I want bigger..lol..as a full timer just makes sense. Where the heck do you put 8 batts in a 240rks/270rks without over loading the tongue?
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2000 2500 chevy 4x4 3/4 ton
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Midnight Blue
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10-24-2016, 08:42 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Nomad69
or just go big...if I'm out in the middle of nowhere. I want bigger..lol..as a full timer just makes sense. Where the heck do you put 8 batts in a 240rks/270rks without over loading the tongue?
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4 6V flooded/AGM batteries on the tongue and 4 AGM 6 V batteries under the dinette( in the basement). Have this setup the last 6 years in our TC, 4 batteries under the dinette.
Dave
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10-24-2016, 08:55 PM
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Outdoors RV Owners Club
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Quote:
Originally Posted by crosscheck
4 6V flooded/AGM batteries on the tongue and 4 AGM 6 V batteries under the dinette( in the basement). Have this setup the last 6 years in our TC, 4 batteries under the dinette.
Dave
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Cracky, that's a p@@p load of capacity! 
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2008 F450, 2016 Outdoors RV Glacier Peak 26 RKS
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10-24-2016, 09:12 PM
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Location: Atlanta Ga
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Four 130 watt panels and 6 gc2 batteries. I may be adding another 480 watts to round it off at 1000 watts. More is better.
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10-24-2016, 09:15 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Rickeoni
2 x 150 watt panels roof mounted, I have a 2 x 100 watt portable that I use with my TC.
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For the portable - do you just plug it into the Zamp connector on the side of the RV? Or is there something else you need to do?
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10-24-2016, 09:32 PM
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Location: Coldstream,BC
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Cracky, that's a p@@p load of capacity! |
I should made it our past situation in the TC a little clearer. 4 AGM batteries under the dinette in total. It was all we needed.
Dave
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10-24-2016, 09:44 PM
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Senior Member
Outdoors RV Owners Club
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Quote:
Originally Posted by crosscheck
I should made it our past situation in the TC a little clearer. 4 AGM batteries under the dinette in total. It was all we needed.
Dave
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I use 3 group 31 AGM jars in my TC. I get a real deal on these babbies as we sell them onto Rolls-Royces at work.
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