Electricity for Boonie
We have upgraded the van's electric power and I will go into a bit of a detail regarding some of the choices we made and why. Please keep in mind I'm not an electrical professional and this is based on research I have done and testing will need to happen (on the road, here's hoping!) - if you are interested to see how it worked out I will post a follow up to this to show what needed improvement, what worked and what didn't. If you want the short and curly version I have a link to the video at the bottom of the page. When we purchased the van it came with 2 solar panels on top - we didn't know what power they output and were not inclined to disconnect them entirely and see if it still had its label underneath (especially since they are 10 years old now). We purchased an OHMMeter and checked the Volts & OHMs coming in from the solar panels. Using this we could find out the Watts. So based on the below math each panel is about 60 watts of maximum input per ho...