Boba Fett Has Solar!!!!!!!!!

We picked up our 560 in April of 2016. We now have solar. A friend here in Houston helped me tremendously as he is a electrical engineer and solar expert. We ended up with 120 watt panel, 24 volt polycrystalline commercial grade panel. It's connected to a Morning Star SunSaver MPPT controller. The 3.8 amp output in full sun is then doubled by the fact it's a 24 volt panel and converted by the controller to our 12 volt battery system. Then there is another magical 1.25x multiplier that the MPPT controller does, for a total of about 9 amps per hour for a battery that requires it. Our battery is the upgrade that Cary offers, 70AH AGM battery.

Pics below shows 3.888 amps of panel in full sun, then 14 volts charging battery, then 40.24 volts from panel.

(Battery in pics is not our trailer battery, I was using this for testing purposes)

 

What is the gizmo to the right of the meter?

 

Do you mean the battery?

 

Yeah. I see now you say you were using it for testing purposes.​

 

Slick! Tom got ours tested and running yesterday. In April, if he brings our system, we'll have to show it to you. More moving parts, but it was put together over time.

~ Diana

 

Nice. Can't wait to see the new trailer and solar setup.