I bet you'd get more milage out of insulating your ice box better. Don Casey has a whole chapter about this in his book "good old boat". If I ever install refrigeration on my boat I'm only doing it after an icebox rebuild.
To answer your question about the panel, the dodger will not help you. Shading, even very minor shading, render the panels almost useless. See here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G2UdCOq0A5c With a 65 watt (rigid) panel on my bimini top I get 3 to 3.5 amps at peak daylight hours. That's not enough to run a fridge. Flexible panels on a dodger won't be any better, even they are bigger. Steve Suhana, C&C 32 Toronto On Wed, Mar 26, 2014 at 2:52 PM, Kim Brown <kimcbr...@comcast.net> wrote: > All, > Looking to add some solar. Currently I am only good for about a day at > anchor before I have to address the batteries. Main draw is the reefer. > (wife has short hair and have gone with LEDs) We were anchored out this > past weekend and by the end of day 2 the batteries (2x grp 31h - 110 amp > hrs > each) were about out of juice. Warm beer is not an option. Hate running the > engine at anchor; don't have any room for another battery without major > work; not enough wind around here to make wind work. No dinghy davits or > other structure to put rigid panels on..... SO anyone have any experience > with the semi flexible solar panels that you can attach (Velcro) to your > bimini top? Not looking to trickle charge to top off- I am at a dock at > the > house and can plug in when home as needed. I need to keep the beer cold at > anchor on day 2-3. > > Kim Brown > Trust Me!!! 35-3 > > > > _______________________________________________ > This List is provided by the C&C Photo Album > http://www.cncphotoalbum.com > CnC-List@cnc-list.com >
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