Confusion on battery charging
I am confused about the best practices for charging batteries. For 7 years I had 300 AH of Lifeline AGM batteries, 270 watts of solar and a simple charging system. My old camper has a 110 volt c...
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red31 wrote:
BFL, I though you and yacht had trouble getting amps to taper unless you hit it with ample current after decent discharge and why MEX suggested such. ???
You are thinking of Mex's (and Lifeline's) 20% minimum amps /AH size of bank, rule for charging AGMs. Hard to do with "low and slow, all day" solar. Could be done using the gen/charger first, then switch to solar.
I would say 7 years from any battery Rving is very good, and the OP did it without following any rules. So whatever he does now is just gravy. Time to figure out the dollars per year on batteries vs the dollars per year of controllers and chargers and not go overboard on the latter when batteries are fairly cheap per year.
