Friday, May 7, 2010

[Electric Boats] Re: average energy consumption per day of a 44foot sailboat?

 

wow.. pricey.. I don't know if they are comparable but I can get kyrocera 210 watt panels for between 500 and 600 dollars US each here. That is what I'm planning on doing on our DE38 livaboard soon. Probably 4 of them for 840 watts of power generation to keep the battery bank up.
scott

--- In electricboats@yahoogroups.com, Chris Baker <chris@...> wrote:
>
> Hi Ricky
>
> If my budget was a boat it would be a submarine :)
>
> Thats pretty much all that keeps me from having more solar panels. I
> would like add more of the Solara panels on the floats - I can easily
> add two more 40 watt panels - one on each float, and another two on
> each of the front beams. Adding them in this way makes no impact on
> the usability of the boat. But at $1100 (australian) for each
> panel... well I just can't manage it at the moment.

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