{"id":2196,"date":"2025-04-29T15:20:54","date_gmt":"2025-04-29T21:20:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thebrookers.com\/blog\/?p=2196"},"modified":"2025-04-30T15:29:44","modified_gmt":"2025-04-30T21:29:44","slug":"solar-panels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebrookers.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/29\/solar-panels\/","title":{"rendered":"Solar Panels!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I picked up 3 new solar panels today for a pretty good deal, $58 each and they are in great shape, no damage, no cracks and they all put out 42.7 Volts. (24v panels in the solar world&#8230;)  They are 175 watts each which is decent, but not super high power.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I am going to use one for the shed, connected to a LiPo battery and hope to get the other two in top of the RV.  I have a Renogy controller and everything I need to set these bad boys up and make some power!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I have been running off of a 10 watt panel in the shed and with the LiPo batter it is pretty damn impressive!  175 watts will make it sing!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">They are pretty good size, I hope I can find a spot for both of them on he RV.  I am going to build the whole system by myself, and integrate it in with the generator, shore-power and existing batteries we have.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">With that, it should be enough to keep us charged up, topped off and running from the sun while we are camping!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I think it is going to be a fun little project and in the end will be a nice enhancement to the RV.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Come on Camping time &#8211; I am ready!!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We have not even been out to see the RV in months, it is time!!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I picked up 3 new solar panels today for a pretty good deal, $58 each and they are in great shape, no damage, no cracks and they all put out 42.7 Volts. (24v panels in the solar world&#8230;) They are 175 watts each which is decent, but not super high power. I am going to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2197,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebrookers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2196","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebrookers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebrookers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebrookers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebrookers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2196"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thebrookers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2196\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2198,"href":"https:\/\/thebrookers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2196\/revisions\/2198"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebrookers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebrookers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebrookers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebrookers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}