Recent content by SolarInMaine

Love the suggestion. Been thinking about doing pretty much exactly the same to help melt snow from my panels in the winter. Basically, Id connect heating pads in some yet to be determined arrangement of series and parallel until I had enough pads for my needs, putting out a temperature...

I realize this is an old post but want to share an easy, energy efficient way to keep warm lithium batteries when temps drop below the charging thresholds of the batteries. I stumbled upon this idea while building what is essentially an extremely large version of those little battery/inverter...

Like Mattb4 already suggested, beware of Eco-baeerss panels. Im happy that your 100watt panel from there seems to check out but a quick search on Amaz brings up Eco-baeers panels that cannot possibly be anywhere close to their "claimed" output in relation to their size. And even the information...