Walt, I am on the Texas coast for now but when we cruised from Ft. Lauderdale to here, we plugged into shore power twice in 6 months (not really needed), did not charge the house bank with the engine, and we don't have a generator to supplement charging. We have four 75 watt Seimens panels feeding a starter battery of 95AH and a house bank(traction lead acid type) of 495AH. We have a self built box with refrigerator package using about 20 to 25 amps a day, radio and lights on this bank. Only after days of rain did we think about conserving energy. That said, I will be adding a wind generator this season as we are about to make the journey back to warmer weather/water.
John Walter Knopf wrote: > I would like to hear from people in the sunny area, I have a wind generator, > no solar panels. > I am located in the Caribbean, am I missing out? > > Walt > > _______________________________________________ Liveaboard mailing list [email protected] To adjust your membership settings over the web http://www.liveaboardnow.org/mailman/listinfo/liveaboard To subscribe send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] The archives are at http://www.liveaboardnow.org/pipermail/liveaboard/ To search the archives http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] The Mailman Users Guide can be found here http://www.gnu.org/software/mailman/mailman-member/index.html
