Is this a possibility?
Have a portable self contained 12 volt solar generator with 4ea 6 volt full river batteries. My RV currently has 2ea 12 volt house batteries and a separate 12 volt battery located near the on-board on...
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bpounds wrote:lc0338 wrote:
My main question/concern is if you have 4ea 6 volt batteries in series/parallel to yield 12 volts at 500ah..... can you then safely link them to 2ea 12 volt RV/house batteries?...
I don't see why not. Just turn the onboard converter/charger off.
I guess I got off track with the A/C thing, because you mentioned the heat of summer. My apologies.
I suppose that the reason you don't just mount all that stuff on your trailer, is that you want to use it for other trailers/purposes.
No problem on the A/C. There are multiple reasons I wanted a portable solar generator (PSG). One was "heat of summer" and I want my RV in the shade. Solar panels like/need sun and since I can't generate enough electricity for air conditioning I need to take advantage of nature to help keep me cool. Secondly, when I started on the path of PSG I had both an 5th wheel trailer and bumper pull. Didn't want to duplicate solar systems and didn't know how long I would have either RV and it almost impossible to recover your costs. Since I have the solar generator completed I have downsized to 1ea 5th wheel trailer but it is a different one than I had when I first started on this journey. I have also switched tow vehicles and had to do a little redesign to be able to load the solar generator. These are all separate issues but with a separate stand alone solar generator you have a lot more options like I live on a farm so if I'm not RV'ing the solar generator can be used around the farm to put power at remote locations and be utilized 12 months of the year, not just during RV season.
