Here comes the sun

Posted by van on 09 July, 2009 00:24

I been planing to add a solar panel of some description to the van to charge the batteries since I first started planning to do the van. Today after much reading planing etc, I finally selected and bought a panel and charger. I ended up going for a 130w panel, as that would provide the kind of power I need without costing to much. I also got a MPPT solar regulator to charge the batteries from the panel. The regulator basically stops the panel from over charging the batteries, and acts a dc-dc transformer to take the voltage from the solar panel and adjusted it to be most efficacy voltage for charging the batteries. Now all I need to do it fit it, and get it working, I will let you all know how well that all works out.

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