Solar panels,what should we get in April?

[Hymerbell]

Your solar panels are on the roof.
If you can get up a stepladder and see where they are, you should be able to see where the wires from it/them enter the vans insides.

Go to that place in the 'van, (it will probably be inside a cupboard). Follow that wire until it stops being a wire and enters something else. It could be something like this;
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Invariably, the above will be an PWM controller. This is the most basic type and makes sure that the solar panel doesn't send 20 volts down the wire and fry's your Batteries.

There is another type of Controller.
It goes by the Acronym MPPT.

It could look a bit like this;
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This type of Controller is more advanced than the PWM controller. It extracts more useable energy in low light conditions that the top one and therefore is more useful to us in Northern climes.

It costs more than the PWM but you get what you pay for.

Keep asking. Someone on here is bound to know.

The roof !....is that where they are ! ?. Right I’ll do a bit of wire tracing....any idea how I can tell if they charge both the leisure AND starter battery....my last van did both...and I only know that because I asked for that from the installer....of course I couldn't be sure if that was done.

 

[Paddywack]

I think you meant June?

 

[robnchris]

Tandy TRS80, Commodore Pet, SWTP, Atari and you could not put a floppy out of one into another make ! Those were the days my friend..........."

My daughters did the last GCSE, youngster.

Hey Brian, I have a TRS80 with twin disc drives in our attic, along with a ZX Spectrum, Commodore 64, Atari 520ST, and my all time favourite The Amiga 1200.

Such fun all those years ago.

 

[hilldweller]

Such fun all those years ago.

It was another world. No-one could have imagined what those simple 8 bit chips would turn into. I remember being on a conferencing system at 110 baud. Now we get laughed at if we have only 5,000,000 baud.

I can still see the face of the first person I put out of work with a computer program, a young blond woman, probably a young mum supporting her family. I was sat with the MD when she came into his office to say "goodbye". I spent the next 30 years putting machines before people.