Which when you consider the solar setup draws about 5 amps per hour total we have a decent amount of amps per hour leftover to do with what we please.
Solar panels to run a 6 5 amp refrigerator.
Multiply these two quantities to calculate its power demand.
For this system you would need seven 75 watt solar panels and four 300 amp hour batteries.
So we used a whole bunch of confusing math and figured everything out.
Residential refrigerator 8 5 amps 115 volts 60 hz.
If the boat has normal monocrystalline solar panels i e.
5 hours x 290 watts an example wattage of a premium solar panel 1 450 watts hours or roughly 1 5 kilowatt hours kwh.
3 amps x 24 hours 72 amp hours led lights.
We set up the solar panels which we procured from windy nation.
If you were using 200 watt panels you would need only three panels and four 300 amp batteries.
We then took 11 000 kwh and divided it by the respective ratios and then divided that number by 250 the typical panel wattage.
Fridge draws 6 amps you multiply 6 by 120 volts to get 600 watts.
No phantom loads in rv in reality there are many phantom loads that use up battery power 18 cu.
For instance if your typical 16 cu.
Because you can t power a fridge on solar panels alone.
In order to find a range for number of solar panels we compared arizona and maine s solar panel production ratios 1 31 and 1 61 the highest and lowest in the u s.
Power usage 60 litre energy efficient fridge 3 amps per hour usage and 2 x energy efficient led lights 0 5 amps per hour 60 litre fridge.
Solar panels 160 watt panel supplying 8 5 amps per hour battery 120 amp hour.
Not the high efficiency ones with sunpower cells they will produce around 1 4 of the rated watts output in amp hours per day.
However with the right solar power configuration and power requirement calculations you should be able to run any refrigerator with solar power.
If amps are given convert amps to watts by multiplying the amps times the voltage.
Always round this off to the higher number.
The refrigerator is rated at 8 5 amps x 115 volts 977 5.
The solar panels have to be connected to a battery and inverter to provide power to your fridge.
0 5 amps x 6 hours 3 amp hours x 2 lights 6 amp hours.
So with these types of panels the.
5 hours sunlight per day for san diego number used in solar calculations full sun no shading no clouds zero days of autonomy.
How much energy does a solar panel produce.
Really the question should be how much power do i need to power a refrigerator.
Roughly our fridge draws 1 3 amps per hour.
Thus the output for each solar panel in your array would.
At night there will be no power for the fridge and it will shut off.
Using the 2400 daily watt hour figure from the above example you would divide the 2400 by 375 and need 6 4 panels.
A frigoboat keel cooler system using 25 amp hrs a day a typical report from cruisers in the caribbean with a 6 cu ft box.
For example a fridge may read 115 volts and 4 5 amps of current.