CA Traveler wrote:
cbird02 wrote:
I have a two-battery bank that is charged by a solar panel via the onboard Renogy controller. I have a trolling motor that is run by a 12v deep cycle 100ah battery. I have 2 similar deep cycle batteries in the bank. When I am off grid, I want to charge my trolling battery from the RV without using an inverter to plug in my normal AC-DC charger. What is the most efficient way to do this? Can I just hook up my trolling battery in parallel with the other two and the whole bank will then be charging? Yes What if I want to make sure that my trolling motor is fully charged even if my coach batteries are not? Disconnect the house batteries so all of the charge will be goint to the trolling motor battery. Thx
Craig
I think this is what I am going to do. Anyone know of some sort of switch I can install on the incoming wires from the existing charge controller? I don't want to unhook the wires every time so I am thinking like a switch that changes it from Coach to External battery, then I just uncoil some wires from inside my battery store, hook up the Trolling battery and flip the switch. Just don't know if that exists or what rating it would be. I have (1) 100W solar panel and the controller is rated at 30A.
