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Justin63
So what I'm trying to figure out, is this; lately I've noticed that while working on renovating my boat, I've always ran my laptop off it's own battery for background music, and hand sanding, so there's NOTHING using any electricity. I have a 5 watt solar panel(considering adding a 15 watt panel and regulator as well) attached to the marine battery. However, I'm seeing that around 8 or 9pm, when I turn on the cabin lights, they start to dim REALLY fast, like around 25-30 minutes after being turned on. What should I be doing to make sure those don't dim out, because later on down the line, I don't want to be night sailing and not even have enough juice to power the running lights and whatnot. My ultimate goal, is to be able to go out in the evenings, and not have to worry about the electric failing, while still being able to operate lights, VHF radio, and music as well. I plan on switching out the conventional bulbs in the cabin lights to LED, possibly even just getting battery powered LED taplights to replace them altogether and add one, maybe even two more batteries and run them parallel. Anything I can do besides getting a gas powered generator to do this? I really don't want to get a set up that relies on dinosaur juice. Trying to break away from that. Thanks.