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Empty_Nest__Soo
Explorer
Oct 21, 2014

Charging 4 12-volt house batteries with portable charger

The new-to-us coach has 4 12-volt house batteries in parallel. Our uses for it will include boondocking for weeks at a time in spring and fall in the mountains. It has a couple of solar panels (100 ...
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Almot
Explorer III
Oct 21, 2014
2*100W portable solar tilted South in January in, say, Charleston WV, will collect on the average 40 AH a day. More on a sunny day, less on cloudy. It is possible to live off 40 AH if you don't use 120V devices other than TV couple of hours, and rarely run a furnace. In any event, it will help shorten the generator time.

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