After ultimately deciding I would be building a solar panel for my boat instead of a computer, I have lots of planning and decisions that will reflect on what I will build. These decisions include how big I want it to be, where I will put it, how I will wire it to my boat's battery, how I will weatherproof it (which is a must because it will get rained on), and what I exactly will need to buy to build it. I will also have to learn much more about the panels themselves such as how many will I need to function how I want them to. I also have to determine how I expect them too work so I can be realistic about how helpful they will be in charging the boats battery. This might be a bit complicated since the boat was just moved to Fay's Boat Yard for winterizing.
One of the biggest decisions I will have to make will be what
type of solar panel I will use since there are many. The one I originally wanted to try and build was supposed to be "woven" into my sail and be flexible. Like this one
I later found out this would most likely be to expensive and unnecessarily complex and in some cases had less than a year lifespan of good use. I instead am going to do something like this more or less.
I will try and fit them to my boat like this and use a more conventional
Monocrystalline silicon (mono-silicon or single silicon) type of panel.
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