Yo Captain ,, I saw a setup on Ebay that the solar panel is in a suitcase.
When you want to use, you open the suitcase up, and it sets on deck [ as I
recall it was shown for an rv ], run a line to the batteries and let er
power em up.

Whether the panel is any good? Who knows. Seems like much of the solar
panels shown on Ebay are junk.

I'm not sure about regulator, switch, etc.


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"Roger Long" wrote in message
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Larry,

I know the answer is somewhere in a search of this newsgroup but I'm
feeling lazy today. I've enjoyed your posts on batteries and would
appreciate a direct recommendation.

I'm probably going to be sailing off a mooring for much of the summer so
often won't even run the engine at all on day sails. I won't have any
place to plug the fat yellow cord into so a solar panel to keep my two AGM
batteries (Yeah, I know you don't like them but they work well for me.)
topped up is probably in order.

What would you buy for the simplest set up here in Maine? It will have to
just sit on a cockpit seat and be stowed while sailing. I'll want to wire
it to a dedicated plug so I can turn off the master switch when I leave
the boat.

Electrical loads are about as minimal as they get on a 32 foot boat,
lights, GPS, one radio, depthsounder, knotlog, 15 HP diesel. Bilge pumps
never run. I always run my batteries on "Both" (I know, but that's another
discussion. It works well for me.)

Come to think of it, I don't want any permanent connection between the
battery banks to complicate things when I am using my dual charger on
shore power with the master switch off so I probably need two separate
solar panels.

(Anyone else feel free with a recommendation as well.)

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Roger Long