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Originally Posted by Sven7
Great video.
A few years ago I tried to sell my dad on buying some solar panels or wind turbines for the house but he didn't like the long payoff.
How long do you think it'll take to pay off the cost of the solar panel and batteries, over having an alternator?
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I did 12v solar for my house first, and actually did the numbers on that. It didn't eliminate my bill, but it reduced it. That system should pay off in about 2 years:
Independant (non-grid-intertie) solar electric system
I haven't really calculated for the truck solar, because I was never careful enough about logging or ABA testing to determine what impact any one mod had, so I don't know how much mpg the alt was responsible for.