Adding more batteries
I'm fully in the grip of winter up here so contemplating spring projects. I have a truck camper with a battery box that only allows for 2 grp 27 batteries which I have installed now (2 x 12v) I ...
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Boon Docker wrote:
And it never ceases to amaze me about some people that don't have a clue about batteries. Go ahead RJ, connect a 100ah battery to a 220 ah battery if you like, just don't be telling other people to do the same.
:) Actually there is nothing wrong with connecting different AH sized batteries together either, if they are in the same sort of "shape" so one doesn't drag down the other.
There is some confusion (at least for me) about whether it is really ok to leave different batteries in parallel as long as they have a decent float charge to cover all sins.
Time2Roll says it is ok, but I have read somewhere about "eddies" ISTR that get going and screw things up between them even when on Float, so I am nervous about that.
So sometimes I will do it for a while and then sometimes I give them individual float chargers. I just don't really know.
