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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
Ahoy! Sailing bliss or disaster? We're leaving the Eagle Point marinara a raw sail downwind to our marina in Lake Dallas. Cyndi and I have come this far to try our hand at a downwind wing-on-wing sail plan, after an easterly beam reach, then a westward sail. We had a great time practicing the training run and the down-wind sail setup. We leave our old friend, Sneaky Pete's Grill, and Eagle Point Marina behind and press forward, sailing back to Lake Dallas in our Catalina C-30 Tall Rig sailboat named Zanadu! Cheers! - Rodney & Cyndi #sailingcouple #sailingintonirvana #boatlife #sailinglife #sailingcouple @SailingIntoNirvana Website: http://sailingintonirvana.com Social: https://facebook.com/sailingintonirvana Patreon: http://patreon.com/sailingintonirvana Fire Dragon Spices: http://piraterodneys.com _______________________________________ 🎵 Music licensed from Lickd. The biggest mainstream and stock music platform for content creators. Distanced by Richard Lacy, https://t.lickd.co/b3o9nlZeP4z License ID: LQ7MZGz4aWx Fog Coming by Per Ljungqvist, https://t.lickd.co/WXDaAY8ZVDz License ID: nOV6M9R84wg Mounting Suspicion by Pakk Hui, https://t.lickd.co/oJBEY5lZEBx License ID: wK24WYkk38j Fog Coming by Per Ljungqvist, https://t.lickd.co/WXDaAY8ZVDz License ID: nOV6M9R84wg Mounting Suspicion by Pakk Hui, https://t.lickd.co/oJBEY5lZEBx License ID: wK24WYkk38j Offtides by Pakk Hui, https://t.lickd.co/Eydgka7ZPde License ID: DWMlDeVrM49 If you want to use music from famous artists, try Lickd to get track credits and unlimited stock music: https://go.lickd.co/soundtrack-your-videos If you want to use music from famous artists, try Lickd to get track credits and unlimited stock music: https://go.lickd.co/soundtrack-your-videos
Behozel 6000mAh Mini Compressore Aria Portatile Auto, 150PSI Compressore Portatile Batteria Gonfiatore Bici Elettrico con Schermo LCD Digitale, Pompa Elettrica per Bicicletta Moto. Ho avuto una buona impressione, facendo varie prove sulle gomme della moto e auto, devo dire che la durata della batteria è ottima e consente di gonfiare tranquillamente le 2 gomme della moto, 2 della bici, poi ho controllato quelle dell'auto e il compressore ha perso solo una tacca di batteria. Questo è il link di Amazon dove l'ho comprato. https://amzn.to/3ZEu0nF Quasi tutti i lavori li faccio con questo giravite multipunta a cricchetto, davvero pratico. https://amzn.to/3ZyFhVL I miei social: Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@MavarChannel Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mavar58/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/mauro.folegatti Gruppo Facebook : https://www.facebook.com/groups/mercatinousatobikers Pagina Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/MercatinoUsatoBikers TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@mavar58