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cbird02
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Mar 08, 2021

Charging trolling motor battery while boondocking

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 batteri...
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Housted
Explorer III
Mar 10, 2021
A word of caution here:
Most if not all solar controllers do not want solar connected without battery connection first. Be very careful when switching between batteries on the output of solar controller. You might want to add a breaker/switch to the solar input to the controller. You can then disconnect the solar panels and do your battery reconfiguration to charge the TM battery.

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