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What recommendations do you have for solar panels,do you get any turbulence related noise with roof mounted units?
Battery is 75ah will replace with 100 ah,are they worth the money and effort,l really like the idea

lodgey62 wrote: do you get any turbulence related noise with roof mounted units?

Nope

lodgey62 wrote: Battery is 75ah will replace with 100 ah,are they worth the money and effort

Yep

Ian

If you have the space a 130ah isn't much bigger than a 110 and not much more expensive.

lodgey62 wrote:do you get any turbulence related noise with roof mounted units?

Nope.

Are they worth the effort?

I no longer pay for hook up, in fact I now no longer use camp sites for holidays.

Flat semi flex panels can be flush mounted. Couple really big useful threads on here.

Cheers lads,all this is new to Mrs Lodge n me,but we're having a ball finding out.

Fitted the 100w biard panel on me joker july this year. Well happy only regret i got is not fitting one before.

Looking at Baird's, they seem to be a quality unit,built with quality parts,100w will suffice my need's, mainly a bit of lighting and a water pump.God to hear you're suited with it.

Just bare in mind that once the panel has fully charged your leisure battery it will just sit there in 'float state' basically wasting solar energy. So fit the biggest leisure you can or 'double up' and fit two in parallel. This way you will have plenty of capacity and utilize the solar panel more effectively.
I've 190amps in total and generally my controller is flashing fully charged by lunchtime.
obviously if I had discharged the batteries more the panel would take longer to recover them but you need the capacity in the first place to have the choice.


Martin