The solar panels will work under cloudy skies, but not as good.
Reason is simple, clouds block some of the sunlight. Expect
about 1/2 of full power under light clouds.

Martin

--- On Wed, 4/8/09, Bob Mac <yakandhike@COMCAST.NET> wrote:

> From: Bob Mac <yakandhike@COMCAST.NET>
> Subject: solar panels
> To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
> Received: Wednesday, April 8, 2009, 4:43 PM
> I saw your panel setup at one of the
> campouts. Very nice. So I looked a little further into doing
> one myself. I was all but ready to order until i heard some
> alarming news that just took the wind out of my sails
> imediately. Where I live (Pa) you actually need sunshine to
> make these things work. The weather man locally had a report
> on days of total sunshine here in Pa. The year in question
> was 2006 We had a total of 50 full days of sunshine out of
> 365. The solar project was imediately in the toilet after
> that report. I think i'll spend my money on bigger
> batteries. Something with about 500 ampher hrs. for about
> $500.00 would work well enough for me. I'm not condeming
> anyone for doing it. It's just not for me
>

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