Are Solar Panels Better for Sailboats or Powerboats?
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hi jeff cote here with pacific yacht systems we've got a question here from a fellow voter asking jeff do you recommend solar panels for powerboat owners or just for sailboats oh man that is an excellent question in the past i remember when i started boating about maybe 20 years ago i'd say practically solar panels were just installed for the most part on sale orders now of course there's always exceptions to every rule and there might be five percent of power motors that might have solar probably even less but today when we're doing solar panels i'd say right now we're actually doing more solar panels on power boats than sailboaters and i think the big difference is the fact that solar panels especially these flexible ones can actually be mounted on a hard top or a canvas and that aesthetically the boat is going to look identical to what you fell in love with your boat a lot of my motors boat owners tell me they say jeff i'm okay with doing solar panels and i want it but i don't want it to look weird i want the profile of my boat to look the same when i look at the boat from a distance i don't want it to look with too many straight lines i like the curves of my boat and that's the great advantage with these flexible solar panels is you can actually mount them on a hard surface on um canvas and they'll actually follow the shape of your boat so nowadays i would say it's actually a 50 50 slip shift and we're actually seeing more power boaters taking on solar than in the past certainly it applies a lot to sail boaters and one last point bonus i'm doing solar panels on power boats that have not only one but two generators and it's not that they don't can't run their generators it's just they're choosing to run their dc loads off solar and re-having the power of the solar regeneration recharge their batteries and they're leaving their generators to run large ac loads and maybe complement the battery charging with battery chargers so even boat owners that have generators that have battery chargers are installing solar panels as a way to reduce their generator runtime and so yeah solar panels can definitely be installed on both powerboats and sailboats thanks for watching this video if you've got further questions that we didn't answer please ask them below or go on our website and fill up one of the forms and lastly if you haven't subscribed to our channel please do so that way you'll get the regular contents and in closing thanks for watching you
