Electrical Experts Step In- Solar Panel questions

[RICH17]

So my work bought a bunch of these thinking they will maintain the semi's on the lot over the winter. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B004RCP3QS/?tag=tcg21-20

They started realizing they wont do didly. So I offered to ask what you guys think would do the trick. Being that we cant run power over the open parking lot, solar seems to be the only choice. But I have no idea what size would be needed to work with our trucks.


Most of our trucks have a four battery system. 31 series group size. Running 925cca's. Some new trucks are also running gel cells. Any ideas what we would run that's reasonable?

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[Yaj Yak]

so you need the solar panel to power a trickle charger or what?

 

[10thSVT_03]

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[OffshoreDrilling]

solution: trench the lot and run power

 

[1quick]

Most likely going to need something that puts out a couple hundred watts minim per truck, problem is it won't do shit if it's cloudy out or at night time, unless your talking about using a big battery bank and an inverter and running battery tenders off that, either way it would probably be cheaper to just run power to the lot

 

[Bob Kazamakis]

12 Volt Solar Battery Chargers & Solar Panels by PulseTech


Chat with pulsetech. It's what the military uses to keep trucks ready to go.

 

[EmersonHart13]

Joel is right... and Jared too

 

[RICH17]

Thanks guys. They want something easy that can be pulled off a truck and thrown in the next one pretty easily. I agree that shore power and chargers are the way to do it but this is what they want. I'll email pulsetech and see what they say.