Northstar Chaser
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Hi,
New member of the forum here, new to solar design, and anxious to learn and I'm learning a great deal, thanks to you all. My first question has to do with battery selection.
I have a truck camper that I bought used and it has 160W rooftop panel, a 30 amp Zamp controller, and two 6v golf cart batteries. My understanding is I have about 50 ah of usable storage. I need to get us up to the 175-200 ah range and I'm planning to do pretty much Will's 400w system with alternator charging. I want to go with lithium and was about to pull the trigger on the recommended SOK 206 ah, but then I saw Renogy has a 200 ah battery that can be had for about the same price right now. Will gave the Renogy 100ah battery high marks on build quality and performance last year. Does that carries over to the 200ah battery? I'm wondering if I could get opinions on the Renogy 200ah vs the SOK 206 ah. The SOK can be connected in series and the Renogy can't, but I'm building a 12v system, so that's not an issue. Warranty is 5 years on Renogy vs 7 years on SOK. Any other differences that would make one stand out over the other for my application?
Thanks
New member of the forum here, new to solar design, and anxious to learn and I'm learning a great deal, thanks to you all. My first question has to do with battery selection.
I have a truck camper that I bought used and it has 160W rooftop panel, a 30 amp Zamp controller, and two 6v golf cart batteries. My understanding is I have about 50 ah of usable storage. I need to get us up to the 175-200 ah range and I'm planning to do pretty much Will's 400w system with alternator charging. I want to go with lithium and was about to pull the trigger on the recommended SOK 206 ah, but then I saw Renogy has a 200 ah battery that can be had for about the same price right now. Will gave the Renogy 100ah battery high marks on build quality and performance last year. Does that carries over to the 200ah battery? I'm wondering if I could get opinions on the Renogy 200ah vs the SOK 206 ah. The SOK can be connected in series and the Renogy can't, but I'm building a 12v system, so that's not an issue. Warranty is 5 years on Renogy vs 7 years on SOK. Any other differences that would make one stand out over the other for my application?
Thanks