When you mount on the "outside" lile we did you can make them pivot. We adjust as the sun moves or as the boat heels. Two pannels keep the drive batteries up and can provide charge to the house which has its own pannel but that gets shaded half the time by the main.
Richard.
Roger L <rogerlov@ix.netcom.com> wrote:
>Outside? Does that mean that on Meander your panels are mounted near vertically? I've wondered how much incoming energy is lost by mounting them vertically....say along the sides of the boat where the panels obviously lose primary sun, but gain in reflected light. I guess anyone can figure out the theoretical from Jan Kreider's formulas, but real world data is more interesting. And it dominates.
> Roger L.
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> I know what you mean about sails and shade. Meander is a 32' ketch - Seawind II. I replaced the last 10' of lifeline with ss rail - tubing - to be able to mount the panels outside.
> eric SV Meander
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