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i agree you also need a bigger battery, the shido battery is only a 4 ah battery. I have LEDs in my van and they use 2 amps to run, the shido will run my lights for less than 2 hours. in the back of my van where i sleep I have a kinetik khc2000 agm battery (about 102 ah), never had any problems...

my recommendation is the biggest panel you can fit on your roof. But at minimum 120 watts. Thats what I use to have when I had a 12 volt edgestar fp430 fridge. As long as the sun was good it kept up with the fridge, in your case with your 2x100ah batteries it will let you go longer during the...

it depends how much power you need and if your batteries are similar. If the batteries are not similar you wont be able to parallel them, the cheap way is to get 2x 20 dollar wincong 20 amp pwm solar charge controller and connect each panel separately to each battery. With pwm you will get...

instead of 2 90 watt panels, just get one large panel. I have a 240 watt panel on the roof of my small astrovan, it gives me 12 amps of power from the ecoworthy 20 amp mppt controller. solar will power a efficient 12 volt fridge, if you need something larger you can convert a chest freezer to...

an edgestar fp430 12 volt fridge consumes about 25 amps in a 24 hour period when set to 40 degrees, I measured with a dc wattmeter. All danfoss compressor fridges use about the same. A 120 watt panel (21 volt) connected to either pwm or mppt controller will give you bout 6 amps of power when...

for the solar side just get a 90 volt 30 amp combo meter on ebay, there about 20 dollars. it doesnt require a shunt just connect it between your solar panel and battery. Its got a very large led I can read in daylight and leave it connected 24/7 uses very little power, I like looking it at night...

from looking at the Genesis setup, you hookup the plus and minus wiring from the solar charge controller to the start battery. How the smart charger on the Genesis system works, it charges the start battery first, then when it reaches full charge it connects both batteries together. But it...

To strip wire I been using the 5 inch wire stripper from harbor freight (cost 3 dollars), its all I use for all type of wires been using for years. I got other strippers but i always use that one for convenience. For connectors I been using the xt60 connector for everything on my van solar...

A 30 watt panel will give you about 1.5 amps of charge power, that would be the minimum you need to keep your battery topped off, 60 watt will give you about 3 amps. Thats in the best conditions with the panels outside. For these panels all you need is a 10 amp wincong pwm controller (about 15...

for a 120 watt panel just get a wincong 10 amp pwm controller (cost less then 20 dollars) you dont need anything fancy. Thats what i used on my kycora 120 watt (21 volt) panel, it also worked on my 240 watt (36 volt) sharp panel. i used it for about 1 year 24/7 without any problems. i had it...

i moved away from the powerpoles and just use the xt60 for everything. You can get 10 of them for less then 10 dollars, you need to solder them but its a quick job. They can handle up to 60 amps and work great on my roadpro 12 volt lunch bucket which uses 11 amps, never get hot where they...

get a larger panel if you can. 100 watts will only get you about 5 amps. And mppt only works on 30 volt or higher panels. And if mppt did work on the 100 watt panel you would get at most 6 amps. 100 watt divided by 14.4 volts will tell you what the maximum amps the panel is capable of...

you can keep it connected 24/7 , actually its better that way. The controller has to always be connected to the battery first before the panel. Otherwise it might not function properly, so leaving it connected would avoid complications. The 100 watt panel puts out about 5 amps, well within the...

if you have your panels in parallel, then mppt wont work for you. Mppt needs high voltage (over 30 volts to work). That said I use the ecoworthy 20 amp model on my 240 watt panel and get about 12 amps from it and seen it go as high as 15 amps. Its only rated max 45 volts, so if your 2 panels...

12.1 volts is 50 percent charge, thats where I aim for not going any lower. Once I reach 12.1 I start shutting down the non essentials. Even when I turn on my swampcooler which uses 7 amps (more than what a 12 volt fridge uses) I never see a big voltage drop, from 12.7 it might go to 12.5. If...

if you have the space just put a large 240 watt panel or larger instead of 3 small panels. It will be an easier installation. With a 240 watt panel you can get an inexpensive ecoworthy 20 amp mppt controller (about 100 dollars) . Thats the setup I have on my astrovan. 240 watts with the mppt...

With a 100 watt 20 volt panel you wont get the best performance even if you hook it up to a mppt controller. A cheap pwm controller will at most get the amp listed in the back of panel ipmax. If the ipmax is 4.8 amps thats all your going to get. Mppt controllers will extract up to 97 percent...

with a sharp 240 watt 36 volt panel lying flat on my van roof and connected to a ecoworthy 20 amp mppt controller, the most i have seen is 15 amps in the summer, in winter its about 11 amps.

From what i read on the internet it uses about 5 amps of power. This is continuous when its on. That will drain any starter battery fairly quickly maybe after 5 hours. If you have a older battery it would not be good. The start battery is not design to be used for running auxillary items...

I paid 200 dollar for a 240 watt panel, 102 dollar for a ecoworthy mppt controller, i have a 50 dollar 400 watt inverter, I also have a smaller 150 watt pure sine inverter (rarely use it). I also have 12 volt kinetik kh2000 102 ah agm battery. The above system gets me 12 amps in full sunlight...