Charging a powerwheels battery with my solar setup?
Hello everyone, long time lurker, first time poster here.
I pretty much exclusively boondock in the wonderful mountains of Colorado and as such have a 100watt solar setup on my camper. It is way overkill for my little camper and usually the charge controller says the battery is fully charged by noon. It's an older camper so the fridge uses no electricity when on propane, the CO detector runs off of AA's, I have all LED lights, and my little furnace only pulls 1.7 amps and it is sunny almost everyday in Colorado so I have a surplus of power.
I like to bring my son's powerwheels with when camping and it seems silly to invert 12v to 120, then back to 12 to charge with the normal charger. Can I just wire in a pigtail off of my camper battery and let the solar set up do the work or will it mess things up having one 100ah battery and one 12ah battery hooked up? My thinking is the PW battery typically only needs 6-7ah to charge it up and my solar puts out 4.5ish through most of the day so it'd only need to be plugged in for an hour or two. Will that work or does having two different size batteries hooked up in parallel not work?
Thanks!
I pretty much exclusively boondock in the wonderful mountains of Colorado and as such have a 100watt solar setup on my camper. It is way overkill for my little camper and usually the charge controller says the battery is fully charged by noon. It's an older camper so the fridge uses no electricity when on propane, the CO detector runs off of AA's, I have all LED lights, and my little furnace only pulls 1.7 amps and it is sunny almost everyday in Colorado so I have a surplus of power.
I like to bring my son's powerwheels with when camping and it seems silly to invert 12v to 120, then back to 12 to charge with the normal charger. Can I just wire in a pigtail off of my camper battery and let the solar set up do the work or will it mess things up having one 100ah battery and one 12ah battery hooked up? My thinking is the PW battery typically only needs 6-7ah to charge it up and my solar puts out 4.5ish through most of the day so it'd only need to be plugged in for an hour or two. Will that work or does having two different size batteries hooked up in parallel not work?
Thanks!
