Dale Spirit

I've got three 400W panels on my static caravan and went series initially — massive mistake for shading issues. One panel partially blocked and the whole string tanks.

Mate, painful to see the post cut off like that—happens to the best of us. But I'm genuinely intrigued about what you've landed on.

Spot on, @Cleggy. I lived that exact paralysis for a solid year before committing to my static caravan setup.

Mate, this is exactly the kind of expertise we need. I've been bodging my own setup in the caravan for years—plenty of trial and error, mostly error.

The weight difference is genuinely transformative—I went through this moving my static caravan setup between sites.

The shading issue is exactly why we ditched ground-mounts for our cabin setup and went vertical instead.

You've all touched on something I've wrestled with in my own setup. The intention versus circumstance split is sharp—I moved into my static caravan partly by choice, partly by necessity, and that...

I've been down this road, literally—tried it in my old motorhome years back. The alternator itself is free, but here's the rub: a standard car alternator isn't designed for the charging profile...