Folding Solar Panels - Good yield considering time of year!

[eddie]

Jim was investigating and did an article recently regarding “Lunar Panels” disparagingly called “Moon panels”

Apparently the light from the Moon is only reflected light from the Sun, so with a slight tweek the panels potentially can work 24 hours a day

The Company offer a MHF discount from memory?

 

[MisterB]

Someone will eventually come up with a system to replace the dish of a sat system with a decent sized panel AT an affordable price .....I'm tempted just to add a panel onto the back of my 80cm dish as a project as even lay flat it would be the same as a roof panel.

 

[Carpmart]

Interesting...

Have you got the external one in some sort of enclosure or do they do IP rated versions of them?

I'd been thinking Anderson but XT60 is something I've seen but never used.

My battery locker is accessible and the cable from the floor panels goes through the weather seal on the bottom of the locker door and connects to a short fly lead off the Victron MPPT which means the XT60’s are always in the locker. They are very weather proof when connected and there are some available with rubber caps on eBay and Amazon.

 

[Carpmart]

Someone will eventually come up with a system to replace the dish of a sat system with a decent sized panel AT an affordable price .....I'm tempted just to add a panel onto the back of my 80cm dish as a project as even lay flat it would be the same as a roof panel.

I removed the sat dish, saved the weight and installed another 200W solar panel to replace the dish… far more useful use of roof real estate!

 

[starquake]

I'm thinking this Renogy one looks quite good, if I wanted to play with this? Recommendations welcome.

I'd need to fit an MPPT and work out how to get the cables to it, I guess, but these look nice and compact when folded, to go in my rather compact van, and the total cost is probably about £250.

Thats the exact one we use at moment. Very good and solid. We purchased more because it folded into an under-seat locker space we already had, more than anything else. (ie, it didn't require us to change anything to store them).

The previous panels we had only fitted into one of our 4 lockers, and as such were far more difficult to use.

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[eddie]

Someone will eventually come up with a system to replace the dish of a sat system with a decent sized panel AT an affordable price .....I'm tempted just to add a panel onto the back of my 80cm dish as a project as even lay flat it would be the same as a roof panel.

They did, Oyster did Sammy Solar, discontinued about ten years ago, both the Dish and the panel needed to face South to work and the panel wasn’t really big enough

The Alden one works really well though.

 

[1967bowesj]

Over the last 30 odd years, I’ve helped many get over their PV envy!

eddie
I have finally sussed what your metaphor was, never new you grew these on the site?

 

[Jimbohorlicks]

We put kador strip hangers on ours and they slide along the awning rail.so are 90 degrees to the sun but can be tilted out on their back supports .

In full sun this morning.