Solar looks great on paper. You run the math, pick a setup that checks out, bolt some panels to the roof, and figure you’re set. Then you get to an actual campsite — trees everywhere, 103 degrees in the shade, panels doing maybe 60 watts out of the 200 you paid for — and the whole plan falls apart. This isn’t a knock on solar. I run a 440-watt setup on my Sierra build and it works. But it took me a while to understand why it doesn’t work in a bunch of situations, an