Any one ever install a solar panel on a boat?

Want to run a stereo radio, maby a depth finder. Plus make sure batterie is fully charged. Have no belief where to buy or what size.
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Very perfect advice from the poster above but I'll merely follow up with a few more suggestoins base on having installed them on two cruising boats. Get right marine ones. Ones not intended for sea use will corrode. Boat US, West Marine or any good boating store. I chew over permentnatly installed rigid ones have smaller amount hassle involved and fewer electrical issues than "temporary", removable flexible ones. If the charge is relatively low compared to the freestyle bank, you may take by without a regulator. I've done this on two boats lacking ever damaging the battery, even though the solar cells be my primary charging source. (Using a small trickle charge cell that slowly charges the battery over a week or two for that one weekend year of use, for example may work fine with no regulator. When I be cruising, I simply monitored the battery charge and turned rotten the solar cells if the battery were fully charged) However, that said even though a regulator may be expensive, it's cheaper than replacing battery you overchargged and ruined. The angle of the sun to the solar cells have a temendous effect on the efficieny of charge, so if you are somewhere that the sun isn't high overhead, use a system that allows you to rotate the cell to be erect to the sun if possible. Many nation do this with a rotating system over the adjectives pulpit rail.
The Boat US catalog have a lot of info. plus the parts. It's pretty natural. The 12 volt Bible, as I remember has info. All you entail to do is keep the panel within the sun. Connect the wires and you are good to be in motion. You'll need a controller to maintain from over charging the batteries. The hardest item to find is a cheep controller. I use a 'dumb' controller without any meters or read outs. Use two battery one for starting and the other for house. Lights, radio etc. Boat US can help you size the panel and gross a parts list. You can find Boat US on the pattern. For only one freestyle a panel is easy.


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