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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**. | ||
+ | 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 sunlight, usually December in your geographical area due to shortest daylight hours | ||
+ | - days of reserve (ie with no solar charging) you want | ||
+ | - whether or not you have access to other forms of charging: [[electrical: | ||
+ | - These factors will tell you size of the system needed. | ||
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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 ===== | ||
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===== real solar installations ===== | ===== real solar installations ===== | ||
See the [[electrical: | See the [[electrical: |