Stus-List Flexible Solar panels

2014-03-27 Thread Robert Boyer
My experience has not been anything like the YouTube video. It may have something to do with the actual solar panel configuration. Mt cells (Solbian) are much larger than those shown in the YouTube video--I don't get a falloff anywhere near that amount. Also, if you're thinking they might not

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2014-03-27 Thread Marek Dziedzic
sions are available at very good prices in other places (Amazon and Best Buy come to mind). Marek -- Message: 8 Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2014 14:52:01 -0400 From: "Kim Brown" To: Subject: Stus-List Flexible Solar panels Message-ID: <060184FC18F9483391A4961FDCF

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2014-03-27 Thread sthoma20
nc-list@cnc-list.com > Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2014 14:52:01 -0400 > Subject: Stus-List Flexible Solar panels > > 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 sho

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2014-03-26 Thread RAYMOND SHIBE
, Kentucky 40220 502-584-7255 -Original Message- From: dwight To: cnc-list Sent: Wed, Mar 26, 2014 6:10 pm Subject: Re: Stus-List Flexible Solar panels I have a Honda 2000i, that is good for a hairdryer but not the use I got it for...we both like shorter hair and

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2014-03-26 Thread dwight
sometimes.impulse http://www.procycleonline.com/ _ From: CnC-List [mailto:cnc-list-boun...@cnc-list.com] On Behalf Of Richard N. Bush Sent: March 26, 2014 11:35 PM To: cnc-list@cnc-list.com Subject: Re: Stus-List Flexible Solar panels Dwight, do you remember where you purchased

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2014-03-26 Thread Richard N. Bush
To: cnc-list Sent: Wed, Mar 26, 2014 6:10 pm Subject: Re: Stus-List Flexible Solar panels I have a Honda 2000i, that is good for a hairdryer but not the use I got it for...we both like shorter hair and natural wind / sun dry...the 2000i is compact and clean but I would not want to carry it too

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2014-03-26 Thread Rick Brass
Your 220AH house bank (2 batteries is the house bank and not the total complement for batteries?) gives you about 110AH of usable power. 50percent discharge is about what you can get from deep cycle batteries before you start doing damage and losing battery life. My boat uses about 75-85 AH per

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2014-03-26 Thread Wally Bryant
Solbian would be the way to go. I would have bought them, but they were in pre-production when I was doing the project, and unless you were Bruce Schwab you couldn't get your hands on them. FWIW, I have three little 11W flexible panels on my dodger, w

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2014-03-26 Thread dwight
cnc-list@cnc-list.com Subject: Re: Stus-List Flexible Solar panels I think I'm going to go with one of those small Honda generators. They are so quiet now that you almost can't hear them. I was on a C&C 37 last year an they used it for an hour or so during the day and it worked great.

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2014-03-26 Thread j...@svpaws.net
And the flexible variant tends to be less efficient than fixed. That's changing but at a price. John Sent from my iPad > On Mar 26, 2014, at 3:55 PM, Stevan Plavsa wrote: > > I bet you'd get more milage out of insulating your ice box better. > Don Casey has a whole chapter about this in his

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2014-03-26 Thread ahycrace
I think I'm going to go with one of those small Honda generators. They are so quiet now that you almost can't hear them. I was on a C&C 37 last year an they used it for an hour or so during the day and it worked great. We were at Block Island and 10 feet from the boat you could not hear it.

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2014-03-26 Thread Stevan Plavsa
>From what I've read the Solbian panels are the only flexible panels worth getting. Steve Suhana, C&C 32 Toronto On Wed, Mar 26, 2014 at 4:55 PM, Robert Boyer wrote: > I have two 100-watt semi-flexible Solbian-brand panels--one on my hard > dodger and the other one on the bimini. On the hard

Stus-List Flexible Solar panels

2014-03-26 Thread Robert Boyer
I have two 100-watt semi-flexible Solbian-brand panels--one on my hard dodger and the other one on the bimini. On the hard dodger, I bolted thru the corrugated plastic sheet that is needed for cooling. On the bimini, I fastened it with 6 twist lock fasteners--the bimini was reinforced at the c

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2014-03-26 Thread Stevan Plavsa
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. Shad

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2014-03-26 Thread Kim Brown
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 e