Poll: What is the size of your solar array

[witzgall]

HI All, I would like to get a feel for the size of solar arrays people are installing on their boats. So, please take the survey, and feel free to give a description of your setup in a post!

Thanks,
Chris

[Bleemus]

560 watts solar and a Superwind 350.

[Darby695]

945 Watts, with 600 amp hours at 3x 200 batteries.
With 60 % state of charge then turning on the system, current in gets to 60 + amps
Lagoon 380 with 3 x 315 domestic panels from Samsung, Midnite solar controller

Full system costs $7000 AUD including Stainless framing to provide extra shade by being level with the canvas Bimini at the rear.

Ver

[StuM]

800W to a 1000Ah AGM house bank.

[Pete7]

240w into a 220AH bank.

[sailormed]

2 Sunpower 327 W panels in a fixed horizontal array above the bimini, charging 540 Ah of maintenance free lead acid batteries over an MPPT charger.

[B00B00]

450w solar and a 300w watt hydro generator charging 880 ah - 4 x 220ah 12v batteries.

[conachair]

300W into 225Ah , back to full charge nearly every day.

[sailorboy1]

290W into a 440AH bank, going to double the solar in the next couple of months based on experience

[Sandero]

I don't have an array. I have a pair of panels on the deck over the running rigging going to the cockpit. The panels are 28 years old and keep my batts topped off.

[tmcdonagh]

18 watt aurinco tops off the house battery while she waits on the mooring for me all week.

[rdomaleski]

Originally Posted by sailormed

2 Sunpower 327 W panels in a fixed horizontal array above the bimini, charging 540 Ah of maintenance free lead acid batteries over an MPPT charger.

Hi Sailormed,

How do you like your Sunpower 327W panels? Considering getting them for my leopard 45

[DMCantor]

495 Watts + a D400

[foggysail]

I have 4 each supposed to be 140-150 watts each poly panels. The best I have seen is about 110 watts each. In June I installed a Victron 150/70 controller to accommodate my 4 each 295W Canadian monos that are back ordered until late September.

Anxious to get those panels delivered prior to possible huge tariffs imposed as a result of Suniva going bankrupt with 2% market share filing for protection under Section 201 of the 1974 Trade Act. From the Motley Fool "Suniva requested a duty of $0.40 per watt on imported solar cells, and a price floor of $0.78 per watt on solar modules." The Fool's headline states that this can result in "Biggest Disruption the U.S. Solar Industry Has Ever Seen."

[contrail]

760 watts, 960 amp hour battery bank, Morningstar controller.