Always the Sun

With the closure of OCSC Sailing, I don’t really have a way to keep my boat battery charged. I could remove the battery periodically and charge it with a charger at home, but that’s pretty inconvenient.

So I decided to experiment with a small 50-watt solar panel from Renogy.

I don’t want to install it permanently on the boat, as I don’t really know what I’m doing yet. This small, flexible panel is easy to pull out, hook up, and lay out on the deck for a few hours or half a day when I want to charge the battery.

We’ll see how it goes.

Easy enough to pull this panel out and lay on the deck for a while at the dock, or could be at anchor somewhere.

Charge controller to help monitor the charging and battery state.