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Forgot to mention that ours is a 30ft sailing boat and the battery is 12V. Incidentally, a simple way of estimating solar panel daily output is to take the panel’s rated power and multiply by 25% i.e. a 100W panel is capable of producing about 25Ah per day. This approximation actually worked out...

At anchor we use about 24Ah per day (front-opening fridge, lighting, music, charging devices, electric WC etc., whereas when sailing we use about 150Ah per day (above loads plus chartplotter, instruments, VHF, AIS transponder, autopilot, navigation lights etc.). On-board diesel heating adds...