Solar, Do you have solar panels? How much? Options

[pianotuna]

Hi All,

I'm very curious to find out how many folks have solar panels and how many watts they find "enough".

Do I get to answer my own poll? (I did--but it messed up!!!)

If not,

Yes, I have solar panels

less than 50 watts, and I'd love to have more

My boondocking is limited by Black Water Tank capacity.

[rangiebob]

We have three solar panels that are 320 each which seems to work well for us. You can't beat them for better dry camping, that's for sure. The only time we specifically turn on the generator is when we run the air conditioner.

We've also learned about ghost electrical draining, like leaving things plugged in when they're not in use. We try to be aware of this so we don't get any surprises.

The only time the generator comes on automatically is if I'm not paying attention and I'm vacuuming, I have the convection oven cooking something and I put bread in the toaster! Duh! I hate when I do that! Any two of these can be done simultaneously without a problem while dry camping, but the third one usually is a bit too much.

I do have my laptop on most of the time without having the generator kick on while using the things mentioned above. Gotta' love those solar panels.