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    Solar Newbee

    Hi, you should be getting more than 50% of the rated output, should be closer to 80%. That is at off solar noon, at solar noon should be about 90% with your batteries you can used it till the inverter stops running. LiPo unlike my AGM can be run to 100% of their capacity. My AGM only 50%. Used...
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    Solar help/general info, please!

    Hi, Going Solar is great but in my case to do what the wife wanted was well... a no go. The RV value is in the 10K range but the Solar needed to do what the wife wanted is in the 15 to 20K range. So I settled on a 500W 2K project. The 500W Solar works for the RV's 12v system and enough to power...
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    New to Heartland group

    Hi, I have been using the 500W system for quite some time now. I found that the main item to check for is keeping the panels clean. The neighborhood my RV is stored in is heavy pigeon traffic which they loved to mess up the panels. The system went offline when battery voltage dropped too low...
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    New to Heartland group

    Greetings: I am a retired Military electronics E6 currently a mechanic for the light rail system in the Phoenix Metro area. My wife is employed by Earnhardt Auto dealership and we both are very much part-time RV'ers with our fur baby Belle and 4 word vocabulary parrot Bob. The kids left the nest...
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