Living offgrid in a campervan since 2018 w/ pibble+boxer Muffin.
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I would like to get an idea of what their actual performance would be like before I do the installation
PVwatts and similar models are quite useful for estimating harvest in a given time/place.
Its a strange location with some over hanging trees and some shading by neighbours fromntine to time but it could help provide some redundancy
Partial shading is brutal on solar harvest. It will be the tail that wags the dog in this scenario.
it accomplished my goal
That’s the most important part, IMO.
I was in the boonies once with another camper and rigged up something similar for them. The goal of this one was to run small loads off the inverter while the sun was out. I had a spare motorcycle battery from another project, a small spare inverter, and a relay. The battery was basically just a way to stabilize the solar charge controller and was not intended to run loads in the normal sense.
Basically whenever the sun was out they could run their small loads. When the battery voltage dropped below 12.7v (ie, sun no longer out) the relay would turn off the inverter and the loads would no longer be powered.
Since the controller was a single statge charger I set it to the Vabs of the battery, 14.5v.
10W? What kind of roof? Residential? RV?
I bought a dimmable LED strip for $13.99 in 2017 and have been using it ever since. Some of them come with remote and other options but mine’s pretty simple.