[Rhodes22-list] Solar Panel size

[Hank]

Since we're talking about solar panels, how big of a panel is needed to keep
one battery charged?  RIght now, the boat only has lights for electrical
needs.  For the near future, I might add a radio and maybe a depth guage.
SInce we are strictly day sailors, there is no great power need.

Any suggestions?

Thanks,

Hank


On 7/9/07, jbconnolly at comcast.net <jbconnolly at comcast.net> wrote:
>
> Did anyone install their own solar panels on the cabin top (i.e., GB
> location as seen in http://www.rhodes22.com/head_small.html )?  If so, how
> did you route the wires?
>
> Based on what I recalled from previous discussions, I took off the
> aluminum moulding in the cabin hatch area that covers the deck to cabin
> liner joint and found that my liner is glued to the deck.  Even if I drilled
> a hole to insert the wires into the space between the deck and cabin liner,
> I am not sure how I could fish them through to the edge of the cabin liner
> behind the screwed on carpet-covered trim pieces, because of the sharp turn
> as the liner turns outboard under the side deck towards the hull/deck joint.
>
>
> Crude cross-section, imagine port side looking forward.
>
>              panel          wire in
>            =========||
>          //
>         //
> |===//
> |
>
> ^ wire out
>
>
>
>
> Any suggestions?
>
> I gave up during pre-launch preparations, but thought I might try again in
> the water.
>
> Jim Connolly
> s/v Inisheer
> '85 recycled '03
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