Advice on small pv system

[bigspark17]

hi guys looking for some inspiration/advice on an upcoming project. Been asked to install a small pv system on a mobile hut glamping sort of experience. Now clients wants some panels on the roof to run some 12v lighting and socket chargers for mobile phones. Now i haven't done anything with pv before and am not pretending to know it all, but isnt it pretty much as the pic below shows, i have seen kits for sale online which seem reasonable. 1 question i ask myself is the circuit protection really necessary for just lights and mobile phone charger? Any other things i need to consider?
Many thanks

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[davesparks]

I did this a few years ago, wooden 'luxury camping huts' with a 12V light and smoke lighter socket in each.
We used a standard 12V sealed lead acid battery as used in alarms etc with a maplins type solar battery charger.
We had about 150 of these huts in total and they all worked fine for the summer being taken round to music festivals.

 

[bigspark17]

Thanks @davesparks. Did you come straight from the charge controller into the load or did you use circuit protection? What size panels did you use?

 

[davesparks]

No charge controller, just a straight forward solar battery charger, as you'd buy in maplins to trickle charge your car battery via the smoke lighter socket.