My guess your system is capable of putting out more than that, but once the batteries are charged the system reduces output to prevent damage to the batteries.
--- In electricboats@yahoogroups.com, "Al Thomason" <thomason.al@...> wrote:
>
> I thought this might be of interesting to the group: A month ago we
> installed solar panels on our powerboat Viking Star. These are used to
> recharge the house batteries as we are full time cruisers. Today we
> connected the computer to the TriStar MPPT controller. Turns out the
> factory had already configured it to capture things like total Ahs and KWh
> produced along with other daily values.
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> In summary: late last month we installed two 240W panels, oriented largely
> flat, and a Morningstar MPPT controller. Here in the Puget Sound area this
> has produced an average of 153AH's / day over the past 29 days. More
> details are on our blog at:
>
> http://mvvikingstar.blogspot.com/search/label/Solar
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> Going forward I will include AH's produced in the monthly 'cost' summaries,
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> at: http://mvvikingstar.blogspot.com/search/label/Costs
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> -al-
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