VermonTear wrote:I'm at the early stages of thinking/investigating about adding a portable solar panel to our 4x8 teardrop when we're out for a longer camping trip in an area with no electric hookups. We have a 12 v battery, an inverter, LED lights and don't use much juice except to grind coffee and charge phones. But on dark cool nights it would be nice to plug in the tablet or computer and watch a movie and not worry about draining the battery. I've looked at some 130 watt folding portable panels (Humless).
We do have the ability to charge the battery while driving via the leads from the battery in the car, through the tail-light/stop-light connector. I'm wondering if I can't just run leads from the solar panel controler to a connector that would connect with those same two leads in the tail-light/stop-light connector on the teardrop that connect to the battery. Wouldn't that work and save me having another pigtail hanging out of the battery to connect to?
bc toys wrote:are you using this just to keep your batteries charged up not trying to run a DC cooler or inverter off this system
friz wrote:bc toys wrote:are you using this just to keep your batteries charged up not trying to run a DC cooler or inverter off this system
Keeps my 100ah battery topped off. Runs fan, lights, 12v outlets, and USB ports.
bc toys wrote:what kind of batteries are you using if it is a marine battery from that parts store most likely the amp hours are only about 50amh you might want to look into getting a gel battery with higher amh you can get them at costco and places like that that would help with you longer running time
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