ianc1200
Well-known member
Is there any issues to be considered using a 30W solar panel, without a regulator, purely whilst at anchor/on a mooring buoy & being able to monitor what's going on via my Smartguage? The leisure battery is 85AH, and used for cabin lights/VHF/chartplotter/radio etc only, and in the marina is charged by it's battery charger on shorepower. A days use of various domestics will use about 30% of the power according to the Smartguage, so I'm just trying to mitigate that whilst away from the marina. Boat is east coast based.