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1) Understanding your energy needs is essential to determine how much solar you need. Start by making an "energy budget". List all your consumers and their daily usage. For example, if your LED lights use 1W per bulb and you have eight bulbs on for 5 hours a day, that would be 8 Watts for 5 hours or (8x5) 40 Wh (Watt hours). I like to use kWh to keep things consistent. 40 Wh = 0.040 kWh. It's a good idea to list what you're using while at anchor and another list of what you're using while underway (for instance, you don't use your autopilot at anchor). Remember to list everything: fridge, freezer, watermaker, autopilot, nav lights, chart plotters, etc. For example, here aboard Athena, with an electric galley, fridge, freezer, watermaker, two computers, etc, we use an average of 5.5 kWh per day. 2) To give you a quick estimate, use https://globalsolaratlas.info/ to find "Global horizontal irradiation" per day for your location. Take your daily energy consumption from step 1 and divide that by the number of solar hours. In the case of Athena, located in the Caribbean, that would be 5.5kWh per day / 5 sun hours = 1.1 kW solar array. Keep in mind that this is a theoretical number that does not take into account the shading or degradation of the panels over time. Let's add 30%. 1.1 x 1.3 = 1.43 kW. You can now divide that number by the panel's Nominal Power output. In the case of Athena, our panels are 400W SunPower panels. 1430W / 400W = 3.6 panels needed to cover our 5.5 kWh per day consumption. 3) Understand that the amount of solar you can install on a small sailboat is limited by the size of the boat and heavily influenced by shading and, of course, the boat's location. The size of the panels might also be defined by the height of your stanchions or the size of an existing solar arch. Figure out where you're able and willing to install panels. That will dictate the size and number of panels. 4) Use Victron Energy's MPPT Calculator to calculate what MPPT is ideally sized for your solar panels and expected output based on location. Based on our experience in the Caribbean, the estimate provided by the guide is reasonable. https://www.victronenergy.com/mppt-calculator. Remember that it's best practice to avoid combining panels with different specs on the same MPPT. #sailboat #sailboatproject #boatwork #saillife #liveaboard #liveaboardlife #saltlife #sailing #sailingadventure #travel ingcouple #livingonaboat #solar #sailboatsolar

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Lost On The Atlantic Ocean All Alone With No Navigation Equipment 👉 Please like, comment, but most importantly SUBSCRIBE to help create the Greatest Adventure in History! I just solo sailed across the Atlantic with no navigation equipment, never having sailed a day in my life. Now it's time to prep Kite for a solo circumnavigate, the first of 3 major expeditions. Read!? Want the first Chapter of the Book I wrote during this entire journey. It's far more than about sailing. It's about rediscovering who I am after a deadly illness. And with your help, we can get it published! Click here to download the first chapter: 👉 https://bit.ly/CaptainsFirstChapter Here's the SoloAtlantic Crossing videos of our journey so far (The Atlantic Crossing Finale is coming soon): 12. Crossing The Atlantic With Just My Eyes And The Stars, WEEK FOUR 👉 https://bit.ly/AtlanticWeekFour 11. Crossing The Atlantic With Just My Eyes And The Stars, WEEK THREE 👉 https://bit.ly/AtlanticWeekThree 10. Crossing The Atlantic With Just My Eyes And The Stars, WEEK TWO 👉 https://bit.ly/AtlanticWeekTwo 9. Crossing The Atlantic With Just My Eyes And The Stars, WEEK ONE 👉 https://bit.ly/AtlanticWeekOne 8. Lost On The Atlantic Ocean All Alone With No Navigation Equipment (Trailer) 👉 https://bit.ly/AtlanticTrailer1 7. The Man Who Left to Sail The Atlantic Solo and Has Not Been Seen Since 👉 https://bit.ly/NotSeenSince 6. To Las Palmas Before Crossing the Atlantic Solo with No Experience or Navigation Equipment 👉 https://bit.ly/LasPalmasPlaylist 5. Forced to Stop in Lisbon, Portugal on My Way Solo Across The Atlantic 👉 https://bit.ly/ToLisbonPlaylist 4. Solo Sailing Across the Bay of Biscay with Dolphins, a Shark, and an Orca 👉 https://bit.ly/BiscayPlaylist 3. Solo Sailing To Brest, France Under A Full System Failure 👉 https://bit.ly/toBrestPlaylist 2. Solo Sailing Across the English Channel in a Force 8 Storm and am Fake Rescued! 👉 https://bit.ly/FakeRescuePlaylist 1. I Bought a Ship, Site Unseen, from a Foreign Country and am Sailing Solo Across the Atlantic with 0 Experience 👉 https://bit.ly/ontoKitePlaylist 📸 Insta @CaptainKimmer92 ☕️ BUY ME A COFFEE - $10 PayPal Link ☕️ 👉 https://bit.ly/41NOc8X I love coffee and it literally keeps me going. It keeps my spirits up and buying me a coffee makes me happier than anything in the world. It actually does keep me moving forward towards my goal. So thank you so much! Song: LXNGVX, Warriyo - Mortals Funk RemixMusic provided by NoCopyrightSoundsFree Download/Stream: http://ncs.io/MortalsFunkWatch: http://ncs.lnk.to/MortalsFunkAT/youtube SPONSORSHIPS - If you would like to sponsor the journey across the Atlantic you can reach out to captainkimmer07@gmail.com we are actively pursuing sponsorships!

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