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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BFL13 wrote:
If the 2.9 is the amps from solar, and the fridge is at 2.2, then your batteries were accepting 0.7a
No the 2.9 amps was with nothing else running. With the refrigerator on the amperage needed to maintain absorption was 5.1. That is how I know that the refrigerator pulls 2.2 amps. That also corresponds to the specs from Nova Kool. Looking at the amps needed for absorption is a simple way to approximate the load of different devices. My amps jump up about 2 amps when I charge my computer. Camera battery charging only pulls about 1 amp per battery. I don't have anything else except for LED lights.
