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Harvey51
Explorer
Apr 01, 2016

Quick mod to maintain engine battery from solar supply

I was thinking how strange it was to be hooking up a battery maintainer to the engine battery of the small class C parked in the driveway when I have a surplus of power from a solar panel on the roof....
Class C
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pianotuna
Nomad III
Apr 20, 2016
Hi Harvey51,

The wires are still there--so you could splice into them.

Harvey51 wrote:
Pianatuna wrote:
There is no need to run an additional wire. My trik-l-start resides beside one of the (LARGE) isolation relays and simply connects the house battery side to the engine side.

Ah clever! But my battery isolator is in the engine fuse box.

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