The author claims to have 200 watts of solar panels but only 420 Wh of battery, and because it's lead-acid only half of that is really usable. Unless they live

The author claims to have 200 watts of solar panels but only 420 Wh of battery, and because it's lead-acid only half of that is really usable. Unless they live somewhere that only gets 1-2 hours of insolation per day [0] that is nowhere near enough to store an average day's generation. Likely most of the energy is likely being wasted. http://www.bigfrogmountain.com/SunHoursPerDay.html http://www.bigfrogmountain.com/SunHoursPerDay.html