Solar

After upgrading the boat’s electrical system and monitoring battery
consumption for several years, we decided that the addition of a single
solar panel would easily replace the power that we use during daylight
hours.  We purchased a Kyocera 140watt panel and constructed a
mount that we could use on our dinghy davits.

We fabricated the mounting brackets using stainless steel tubing
and rail fittings while we were home for the summer in Florida.
The design was such that we could install the support brackets
on the top of our Kato dinghy davits.  The panel swivels on the
mount so that we can manually tilt the panel several times per
day to take full advantage of the sun.  After fabricating the mount
and making sure that everything fit properly and that the controller
was working we repacked the panel and disassembled the mount
so that we could ship everything back to Grenada.

 After returning to Grenada we unpacked our shipment,
installed the mount and the panel and wired in the controller.

Flexcharge Controller

We chose the Flexcharge controller after looking at several
installations and talking with the various makers of controllers.