St34mPunkPrivateer
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- Feb 19, 2020
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Hi all, so I have a Privateer 26, if your not familiar with the boat design, here is a link to the sailing data sheet. https://sailboatdata.com/sailboat/privateer-26
She is going to be a challenge to find space for solar panels, and of course shading is going to be an issue with a Ketch rig on top of that. So let me throw out my thought process here. Throw a bunch of Solar panels onto her deck, as well as deployables when at anchor. Im looking at a 400 AH battery bank, but possibly larger ( still calculating all the electrical needs aboard). So I can probably get 2, 100 W solars that deploy off aft section, and probably another 100 w ontop of the dog house, with another 50 w on the forward hatch area, giving us 350w ( obviously less due to shade factors and other misc issues). These panels are for sure going to be put on the boat, but I was thinking about putting a flexible strip of them on the port and starboard decks midship . They would cover some of the deck, but with kiwi grip on either side of the strip on the main deck, the slipping factor should be negated to an acceptable amount, they push about 25w each, and there is room for 4 so that gets us to theoretical (450W), but I assuming worst case loss being 75 %, so 112 w. Thoughts on this ? This is my first time pitching the idea, I've been drawing up different possible locations for the panels. There is also a wind Gen involved, but I wanted to keep that out of the equation as they are normally for supplemental power and kind of suck for consistent power. Also, Im planning to be in the Pacific Northwest, so sunlight isn't as available. A gentle reminder, this is a preliminary post to kind of find a footing to start planning the shopping list for my boat's electrical upgrade. It by no means was fleshed out to a detailed point yet. Any constructive criticism is good, thanks!
She is going to be a challenge to find space for solar panels, and of course shading is going to be an issue with a Ketch rig on top of that. So let me throw out my thought process here. Throw a bunch of Solar panels onto her deck, as well as deployables when at anchor. Im looking at a 400 AH battery bank, but possibly larger ( still calculating all the electrical needs aboard). So I can probably get 2, 100 W solars that deploy off aft section, and probably another 100 w ontop of the dog house, with another 50 w on the forward hatch area, giving us 350w ( obviously less due to shade factors and other misc issues). These panels are for sure going to be put on the boat, but I was thinking about putting a flexible strip of them on the port and starboard decks midship . They would cover some of the deck, but with kiwi grip on either side of the strip on the main deck, the slipping factor should be negated to an acceptable amount, they push about 25w each, and there is room for 4 so that gets us to theoretical (450W), but I assuming worst case loss being 75 %, so 112 w. Thoughts on this ? This is my first time pitching the idea, I've been drawing up different possible locations for the panels. There is also a wind Gen involved, but I wanted to keep that out of the equation as they are normally for supplemental power and kind of suck for consistent power. Also, Im planning to be in the Pacific Northwest, so sunlight isn't as available. A gentle reminder, this is a preliminary post to kind of find a footing to start planning the shopping list for my boat's electrical upgrade. It by no means was fleshed out to a detailed point yet. Any constructive criticism is good, thanks!
