How much solar do I need to be able to watch DVD movies in the evening?

[lewster]

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Lew Farber
RVIA/RVDA Nationally Certified Master Tech
Master Tech Energy Systems, Inc.
AM Solar Certified Installation Center
Lifeline Batteries**Magnum Inverters
541-490-6357

[BoldAdventure]

AM Solar hands down by far. When you get your stuff from them, especially if buying a complete solar kit, you all understand why they are the best. Virtually ZERO guessing. Everything you need, I mean everything. They even take the time to separate all the individual screws into baggies and label them, with little instruction notes.

[switz]

We used AM Solar as the vendor of both or our recent solar system components. When there were questions, there were no run-a-rounds, they had the answers. When an additional solar panel arrived customized by UPS, we had a replacement in a couple of days.

As an early adopter, the only issue we had is the need to drive to their location in Eugene, Oregon to pickup the lithium iron phosphate battery assemblies. They are working on getting that issue resolved.

We planned on a four 100 watt panel solar array and may be able to put a fifth one on the roof of the 23D after converting the factory Winegard fold down bat wing antenna to the WineGard Rayzar automatic antenna. We have a 300 amp-hour lithium battery that will join the Magnum MSH-3012 under the sofa in front of the wheel well. A BlueSky SB3024iL solar charge controller will be installed as well.

As mentioned before, a 100 watt panel rating means a real world number of about 75 watts on a good day. So a 400 watt array could generate 300 watts and a 500 watt array could generate 375 watts. Thus the recovery from using the furnace overnight when boondocking can be done fairly quickly while allowing use of the microwave when needed.