This is our issue. With our truck camper we only have room on the roof for 2 90A panels (which we ordered from the factory as OE), and so our plan is to buy some portable panels to increase our charging capacity and allow the portables to be located in the sun and at the proper orientation. Next step will be swapping out the 2 275Ah 6V FLA batteries for Lithiums, but for now the extra $ spent on solar is probably a better investment.
My feeling has always been (once I dove into solar) to buy as much solar as you can afford and fit on your roof. Make sure your solar controller is MPPT for your best charging rate, and buy the best batteries you can afford (a good name brand). It's expensive to get into boondocking where you have few worries about power but well worth the expense if boondocking is going to be your thing.
So happy to see you address this in a way that makes it a little more understandable to the common person. I see way to many people with 1 or 2 panels on a big Ole 5th wheel that think they are going to boondock for 2 weeks. I have 500W of solar on the roof and 200AH of batteries and even with minimizing power use I will have to plug in or run the generator every couple of days. People don't seem to understand you get very little power per square foot at this point.
This is our issue. With our truck camper we only have room on the roof for 2 90A panels (which we ordered from the factory as OE), and so our plan is to buy some portable panels to increase our charging capacity and allow the portables to be located in the sun and at the proper orientation. Next step will be swapping out the 2 275Ah 6V FLA batteries for Lithiums, but for now the extra $ spent on solar is probably a better investment.
Go over top of everything and you can add as much solar as you can imagine. A buddy of mine has something like 1,500 watts on his truck camper.
https://learntorv.com/solar-rack/
Sorry, 90W panels.
My feeling has always been (once I dove into solar) to buy as much solar as you can afford and fit on your roof. Make sure your solar controller is MPPT for your best charging rate, and buy the best batteries you can afford (a good name brand). It's expensive to get into boondocking where you have few worries about power but well worth the expense if boondocking is going to be your thing.
So happy to see you address this in a way that makes it a little more understandable to the common person. I see way to many people with 1 or 2 panels on a big Ole 5th wheel that think they are going to boondock for 2 weeks. I have 500W of solar on the roof and 200AH of batteries and even with minimizing power use I will have to plug in or run the generator every couple of days. People don't seem to understand you get very little power per square foot at this point.