How To Choose Solar For Your Boat - FREE Guide
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one of the questions we hear often is how do i choose solar panels for my build common question right solar is great solution for boaters to charge and maintain the batteries in sunny conditions or partially cloudy even a small solar array can be a perfect solution to add a few days or even an extra day or two without running the generator right it's not a gimmick solar definitely works got solar on my boat and uh very happy to design the solar system that best suits your boat you've got to do a little bit of homework so a limited homework means a few little questions what's the size of the battery bench uh how many daily amp hours of capacity do you use do you want to have solar to offset the refrigeration loads or maybe you want to stay an extra day in anchorage or maybe you want to stay at anchorage indefinitely some of my clients do uh from solar all of those your objectives are definitely going to influence the uranium do you want are you thinking about monocrystalline or polycrystalline panels right some are less efficient more efficient than others more efficient obviously needs more money are you looking for flexible semi-flexible or rigid panels um and then you've got also consider your controller what kind of control are you gonna get because not all controllers work for all panels specific controllers for specific panels or specific solar rays right are you going to wire your solar panels in series are you going to wire them in parallel again that depends on your setup and where will you install those solar panels are going to be installed on the bimini are they going to have shading are they going to be on an arch are they going to be on the railings are they going to be on a coach roof there's jeff some people are mounting solar panels on the deck um some amount of money on canvas some are mounting them like i said um i've seen some people mount them with offsets with stainless steel offsets off the coach roof it really depends there's a lot of different ways to have all this legwork and these choices uh thought for you we've put together a downloadable pdf that is available on our website and the link is below at pysystems.com we love to share our knowledge and hope that this document will give you the tools you need to make an informed decision about choosing a solar ray for your boat thanks you're curious we've written whole articles about this go on our website search it out and we've got a lot of other tech talks about this very topic if you haven't subscribed to this channel please do it actually it really does make a difference it encourages us to keep posting so if you're watching this video and haven't had a chance to subscribe we really do care because the more of you that are watching the more of us over here are willing to spend more time in creating content so thanks again
