Charged Up the Solar Way

We arrived north of Billings, Montana on June 17th to meet Bob and Norene Shearer up on their beautiful land. Bob and I had been talking about my rv solar project for a few months and even though I was a newbie he agreed to work with me. Now Bob knows a thing or three about solar energy - click here (be prepared for some straight talk) and does not have much patience for the "damn foolishness" he finds in the rv solar products or installation world.
Now while Bob can get mad as hell about the mess in the rv solar world, he and Norene are the most hospitable and generous folks you can meet. The evenings even included happy hour while we watched the birds feed and cavort around their solar powered bird fountain. We camped on their land for 3 days while Bob installed a 632 watt/4 panel solar power system.
The components included 4 x 158 watt 'DM Solar' Polycrystalline solar panels from Germany, a 'Magnum Energy' Pure Sine Wave 2000 watt Inverter/Charger, a 'Morningstar' TS-MPPT-45 Charge Controller and a Trimetric meter.

Here is the Inverter/charger readout and the Trimetric readout, note the 100% charged reading.

 

Storage bay before Inverter & Controller installed 

  

 

After the Inverter & Controller installed 

  

Here Bob is working on the second set of panels.

Bob made sure we had the basics before we left and we now have a game changer of a power source for off grid adventures.

You can just barely see the outline of the 4 roof solar panels.

 

I can't say enough about Bob's expertise and Norene's generosity.