Marine Solar Practical Engineering by Kestrel Daniel (3 results)

PAP. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

PAP. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - Most marine solar installations underperform for reasons that have nothing to do with the panels. Shading from the rig, heat derate, undersized conductors, and a charge profile that quietly starves the battery bank - these are engineering problems, and Marine Solar gives you the engineering answers: a measured power budget, honest derates for real sailing conditions, and a nine-step installation walkthrough that ends in a system you actually understand. This is not a rooftop-solar book with boat photos stapled on. Every calculation, wire table, and mounting detail in this guide assumes what a boat actually does: it heels, it shades itself with its own rig, it gets hot, and it has no grid to fall back on. WHAT YOU'LL LEARN- Daily power-budget worksheets, built circuit by circuit- Honest array sizing with real-world derate factors - not laboratory numbers- PWM vs. MPPT compared on the actual numbers, not marketing claims- LiFePO4, AGM, and flooded lead-acid battery banks: capacity, acceptance, and life- Wire gauge and voltage-drop tables for 12V and 24V systems- A fully illustrated nine-step installation walkthrough, in the order it must happen- Galvanic corrosion, stray current, and lightning protection- Commissioning checklists and a fault tree that turns 'the solar isn't working' into a diagnosis in twenty minutes- Fillable worksheets, reference tables, and a glossary - Appendices A through DTHREE REAL BUILDS, FULLY COSTEDEvery method in the book is applied to three complete, itemized systems - not toy examples: - A 30 ft coastal cruiser on weekends and shore power- A 40 ft liveaboard running solar-primary, full time- A 46 ft ocean passagemaker with no shore power for monthsInstalled cost included for each. WHO THIS BOOK IS FOR>ABOUT THE AUTHOR>Twenty-one chapters. Four appendices. One system that still works in ten years.…