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• Solar cell performance update for no particular reason....
  • Sounds great. Don't walk on them.
  • But what's the bottom line on 'in & out'
    • Between 50 and 100 AH/day...
      • Pretty good at low consumption.
        • I had the opportunity to start from scratch
      • Remember where his boat is.
        • Yeah I would think refrigeration would be the big draw...
        • Daytime temps have been 28 - 32 deg C
          • MPPT and temperature
            • Not sure I understand that...
              • MPPT and temperature
  • Solar panels
    • Wow, impressive getting 24A from 250W of panels!
      • Solar panels
    • I guess my panels are really inefficient
      • YUP! fixed position is NOT the way to go!
        • The devil is in the details
          • The devil's in the details.
            • Sorry, couldn't resist a little ribbing about your exagerated output.
            • Your panels are far exceeding their rated maximium output if they put out 22+ amps
              • We get about 8.5 amps max from 8x20w panels (160w)
                • I have this image in my mind of cruising into some isolated bay in, let's say, Ecuador and
                  • Sports or boat systems? What's the diff?
                    • My point was humor -- I'm not sure how long I'd last on the
                      • The trick is to not go far from an ice machine Jud.
                  • Milliamp draw on Engle fridge? You are drawing far less than the rated output of the motor
                    • the Engle draws less than 1 amp average
                      • Sweet.
                      • Where do you put it?
                        • A beer cooler is never in the way -- are you nuts?
                        • We put ours where the icemaker once was
                          • That's a really nice fit
                            • It gets a bit warm behind it
                      • In the tropics
                        • 1.9 average is almost as much as my big Vitro Frigo
      • Remember that panels are rated at low temperature