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====== Sizing a solar installation ====== | ====== Sizing a solar installation ====== | ||
- | The first step in (and difficult part of) designing a solar setup for your camper is to **understand your real power needs**. | ||
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+ | Sizing **residential off-grid solar configurations** is relatively easy: calculate power needs in the worst case scenario (December in a particular geographical area)((https:// | ||
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+ | - worst case scenario loads (the max loads you will apply in any 24hr period) | ||
+ | - worst case scenario sunlight, usually December in your geographical area | ||
+ | - these factors will tell you the **cost of the install** | ||
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+ | This approach also works for ' | ||
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+ | - max solar wattage you can install (or afford) | ||
+ | - whether your have access to other forms of charging: [[electrical: | ||
+ | - max battery capacity you can charge fully/ | ||
+ | - these factors will tell you what kind of loads you can run. | ||
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+ | The first step in (and difficult part of) designing a solar setup for your camper is to **understand your real power needs**. | ||
**Necessities** like charging phones, LED lighting, fans, etc. are easy to power. \\ | **Necessities** like charging phones, LED lighting, fans, etc. are easy to power. \\ | ||
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- | Some **luxuries** like A/C are impractical on typical solar installs and are therefore relegated to [[electrical: | + | Some **luxuries** like [[hvac: |
- | See also some [[electrical: | + | As a sanity check of what's actually being done out there, here is a list of some [[electrical: |
===== your daily power needs ===== | ===== your daily power needs ===== | ||