Battery and Solar woes
Long read, so grab a coffee... Rockwood Mini-Lite 2306. We’ve had this generic 100W flexible solar panel which has served us well for several years now. I hate drilling holes in the roof of my RV to...
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Gdetrailer wrote:
Both "chargers" you are using are toys, it will take weeks to months to fully charge those T105s and even then, I doubt they will be more than 98% charged..
Your "converter" in your RV should be capable of at a min of 35A which will speed charge your batteries compared to those pea shooters provided the converter is capable of switching to bulk charge mode of 14.4V.
You are safe to keep both T105s in series for 12V charging, there is no need to break them apart like you are doing unless the cells clearly show discrepancies in the specific gravity reading between the two batteries.
Nothing like doing things the hard way :S
This is the only way I've done it so far...in the past 15 years of using solar panels, this is the first time I've encountered any issues.
Nonetheless, I will keep these batteries on the chargers until the specific gravity reaches 1.277 (100% charged as indicated by the spec sheets for this battery), then I will return them to service.
Hopefully, I haven't caused irreversible damage by under-charging them.
