Battery cutoff with solar
Do you use the battery cutoff if you have solar. I just installed my solar and was wonder if I still need to cutoff the batteries because the solar will keep them charged and the little drain might he...
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pianotuna wrote:
My controller, alas, does not do diversion loads. So if the battery bank is bursting full, I turn on the electric water heater for 15 minutes. That causes the panels to work hard. *grin*
What a nifty idea. I've always hated "wasting" all that free solar energy out there.
My wimpy 1000W inverter can't handle the water heater, but I know it can run the 260W frig. Same idea, just sort of inverted heat-wise. So I'll try running that on 700W of solar during the day after the batts are fully charged.
And try not to forget to turn it back to propane before night falls.
