Will this battery minder work for me?
My coach has 4 6-volt deep cycle batteries. Will this 15W solar powered SCC015 batterMINDer be worthy of keeping the batteries up to snuff? My coach sits outside 365 days a year so might as well mak...
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Dennis M M wrote:
That will work fine to maintain, not charge, but it can be done a lot cheaper!
I used this solar panel
and a Battery Tender controller along with 20 feet of wire and a couple of quick disconnects.
I have four 950 amp cold crank batteries in the truck. So far it works fine to maintain them, after about a month it still has not charged them up enough for a green light on the controller, but last time I hooked it up the batts were showing 12.5 volts and when I disconnected to use the truck it was at 12.9 volts, so the solar charger is doing the trick.
I've used a 120 volt Battery Tender to maintain the batts for years, but next winter the truck will be sitting in the AZ sun with no electrical available, so I wanted to put this charger together.
That's only a 6W solar panel, about what my coach came equipped with to trickle-charge the chassis batteries. Was hoping the 15W panel I linked too could charge the house batteries but from what others posted it sounds like the 15W panel would struggle to do so.
