Canal Boat Solar Installation? DONE ✅ More Power Than We Expected! | Ep 402
We just completed our full solar panel installation — and the results blew us away! 3kW of power, all installed and set up in just 2 days. We now have way more power than we ever expected, and it's completely changed how we live aboard. In this video, we walk you through:
✅ The full solar setup and components we used
✅ How we installed everything
✅ Cost of solar panels
✅ The unexpected power output we're getting
✅ How it works on a widebeam canal boat
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Liz and Jamie
00:00 Intro
01:58 We have big power demands
04:05 What is our daily consumption?
06:34 Real world output figures
08:23 Series vs parallel - why we went parallel
11:12 Calculating daily energy output
14:17 Accounting for inefficiencies
16:38 How we installed our panels
21:44 After our first 24 hours off-grid
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