Deep cycle or starter battery charging issues
I recenty moved from a class B to a small fiver. My old van had one deep cycle battery and I installed an isolator. This set up was good for several nights of light usage before I had to run the van t...
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You have been getting 3 days on a charged grp 24 and you are putting up 200w of portable solar that you can track the sun with? Put in a few LED lights and I bet you don't run that generator as long as the sun shines.
We are low power users running 230w of portable solar on a similar AH bank. It took less than 3 hours in the morning sun to bring our grp 27 up from 12.3 to float. After that it stays in float till the sun goes down or we put a drain on the battery. Normally the fully charged grp 27 only drops to 12.5v in 24 hrs and 12.4v after running the generator for a two hours with the cheap on board charger we have the day before. I dropped it to 12.3v to have a buffer of our daily usage.
So I hope both of our systems do well.
We are low power users running 230w of portable solar on a similar AH bank. It took less than 3 hours in the morning sun to bring our grp 27 up from 12.3 to float. After that it stays in float till the sun goes down or we put a drain on the battery. Normally the fully charged grp 27 only drops to 12.5v in 24 hrs and 12.4v after running the generator for a two hours with the cheap on board charger we have the day before. I dropped it to 12.3v to have a buffer of our daily usage.
So I hope both of our systems do well.
