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Finished up yesterday afternoon. Installed 4 60watt panels with a BlueSky 2512ix controller hooked up to my 2 8D house batteries. Unplugged from shore power, pulled the coach out in the driveway. House batteries while plugged in were 13.4V, put in the fuses and the solar system started charging. Putting out 16.5V at 3pm. But watched the house battery voltage drop from 13.4 to 12.8V, is this normal? This morning at 8am the voltage is 12.6 and the panels are just starting to charge.
I have the Dometic fridge (on gas) and a small freezer running plus a few other parasitic loads to find (merge switch off). And plan to order 3 5meter strips of LED's to replace the fluorescent cove lights.
Hopefully this will allow us to dry-camp occasionally and keep the batteries charged up when we have to store it when we fly home on our trip next year.