Long Truong
Junior Ranger
Hi.
I'd like your opinion on what could be going wrong here. We have a 560 Ultra, no AC, with solar option, AGM battery. Here are the primary draws of electricity:
1. Dometic Cf35
2. Fantastic fan
3. Lights
4. Charge phones, etc
I also have a 100w foldable solar panel that I have plugged in. I just plugged it in and the solar controller states that it's charging and the voltage of the battery shot up to 13+ volts.
We went camping over the long weekend (late Friday night to Monday around noon) in a relatively shaded spot. I tried to keep the panel in the sun but was mostly unsuccessful. By Monday, the voltmeter was showing 12.2 volts and the fridge basically was not running very much (I have it set on Medium cutoff).
My hope was to be able to go a week with the fridge running fine with the 100W solar. Is that sized wrong? Is something else wrong? I thought the 12V by itself should last the 2-3 days that we got out of it, so it seems like the solar didn't really do anything this trip?
Tips?
I'd like your opinion on what could be going wrong here. We have a 560 Ultra, no AC, with solar option, AGM battery. Here are the primary draws of electricity:
1. Dometic Cf35
2. Fantastic fan
3. Lights
4. Charge phones, etc
I also have a 100w foldable solar panel that I have plugged in. I just plugged it in and the solar controller states that it's charging and the voltage of the battery shot up to 13+ volts.
We went camping over the long weekend (late Friday night to Monday around noon) in a relatively shaded spot. I tried to keep the panel in the sun but was mostly unsuccessful. By Monday, the voltmeter was showing 12.2 volts and the fridge basically was not running very much (I have it set on Medium cutoff).
My hope was to be able to go a week with the fridge running fine with the 100W solar. Is that sized wrong? Is something else wrong? I thought the 12V by itself should last the 2-3 days that we got out of it, so it seems like the solar didn't really do anything this trip?
Tips?