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BFL13
Feb 12, 2017Explorer II
You can still equalize if you split the bank and take a couple or three days to get it all done. Run up the whole bank as high as possible to near full, restraining your 12v usage for the occasion, then split the bank, and leave half no load till next day, running the rig on the other half. Now next day just apply the solar to the full half and get it equalized.
Now switch over to put the rig on that half and start to work on the other half which now is fairly low. Run it up the rest of the day and into the next day to get it full and then if you can that same day, equalize it.
If it doesn't finish getting equalized, do the rest next morning. So that got both halves all done up, but now the first half is desperate for some solar, so link the batteries all up as one bank again, and carry on till next time to equalize in maybe another three months? You don't have to equalize very often if you are getting close to full most days.
Now switch over to put the rig on that half and start to work on the other half which now is fairly low. Run it up the rest of the day and into the next day to get it full and then if you can that same day, equalize it.
If it doesn't finish getting equalized, do the rest next morning. So that got both halves all done up, but now the first half is desperate for some solar, so link the batteries all up as one bank again, and carry on till next time to equalize in maybe another three months? You don't have to equalize very often if you are getting close to full most days.
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