Dealer wants to sell us 80 watt solar panel for our 179 but is asking 500$. Expensive

[furpod]

As long as your charge controller is proper, no issue, your batteries will charge faster than with a single panel, or smaller panel(s). But they won't over charge, or anything like that. The charge controller will feed the batteries as much as it can as fast as it can, without hurting them. You will have excess power production, with no way to store it, but that is better than excess storage with no way to fill it.. LOL

[rjltdl]

Thanks, that's very helpful. I'm a newbie when it comes to solar.

[jeff64]

Just to put the price in proper perspective you might contact FR customer service and see what they want. Just sayin'

[Rbertalotto]

One thing to watch is you will never get close to the rated power if you do not have a MPPT controller.

Huh? Check out what Bogart Engineering has to say about this.

[Happy Vibe]

I did just check out Bogart Engineering and it does not surprise me that a company that only sells PWM chargers says the PWM is better than MPPT. To bad they did not give any really measurements only his theories.

[gypsypup]

I bought a 100 Watt flexible panel that fit flat to the curvature of the trailer for $198. I installed wiring to a 10A controller. It works really great and charges 2 deep cycle batteries rather quickly. RPOD 171...
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