Diy portable solar panel thursday 21st november 2019 by matt a portable folding suitcase solar panel is one of the easiest ways to get started with solar but they can be very expensive so we built our own for half the price.
Diy portable solar panel system.
Diy solar installation puts you in complete control of your solar project but requires a lot of planning and hard work.
By opting to go diy solar you can actually cut your costs by more than 12 000 for the average home solar system.
Then added some mc4 b.
Not a bad investment.
The solar panel size should be selected in such a way that it will charge the battery fully during the one day time.
These solar panels run about 80 on harbor freight but i got these on ebay for 45.
At 5 amps per hour in full sun these would take about 20 days to charge my 100 ah battery.
Solar panels are generally rated under standard test conditions stc.
Irradiance of 1 000 w m the solar spectrum of am 1 5 and module temperature at 25 c.
I wanted to make sure it worked before i spent a lot of money on solar panels.