Looking To Add Solar Down The Road
I am planning on adding solar down the road from now. Would like to see if I am on the right tract. I want to install three Kyocera 140 watt panels flat on top. Wired in parallel to a BlueSky 2000E, t...
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I'm glad I am still in design mode here for SOLAR PANELs hehe... May have to do what I did when changing over to LED LIGHTS everywhere - Just buy one and after you get the one that one doing all you want it to do them buy the other needed 20.
I wasn't even thinking about the higher DC charging voltages for the T105 or the T1275. I will have that problem even with my on-board converter/charger it appears.
May force my thinking into COSTCO/SAMs CLUB GC2 batteries - I might be able to afford them better anyway...
I am also wanting to replace my original GP24 Interstate batteries soon as they are just now starting to fall off on performance since being installed in the late 2008 time frame. Was really thinking about two battery groups of two each Trojan T-1275 to give me 300AHs of capacity at each location. The weight of these forces me into having two on the trailer tongue and two in the back of truck bed. Having tow different uses for batteries this fits my scheme rather well. Then I could add the two battery banks together when camping off the power grids and get up to 600AHs of capacity. The T-1275s don't come cheap for me...
This whole new for me setup may work better just using two banks of good ole cheaper GC2 COSTCO/SAMs CLUB 6V golf cart batteries.
Presently I do just fine using my three 12V 85Ah Interstates giving me 255AHs capacity so dropping that back to 220Ahs from two 6VDC batteries in series probably would fit my scheme of things with some changes to what we usually do when camping. I still would have the capability switching the two battery 220Ah banks together giving me a 440AHs capacity when camping where it really matters anyway.
Thanks for insight on how the T105s and T1275 need to be re-charged... I just assumed the 14.4 mode was all I needed for them. My on-board PD9260C Converter/Charger may indeed not support those two batteries like I was planning on doing. Maybe it will be just needing 4 hours to recharge verses needing 3 hours ??? I can live with that using the PD9260C being run by my 2KW Generator.
Thought I had it all nailed down hehe
Roy Ken
I wasn't even thinking about the higher DC charging voltages for the T105 or the T1275. I will have that problem even with my on-board converter/charger it appears.
May force my thinking into COSTCO/SAMs CLUB GC2 batteries - I might be able to afford them better anyway...
I am also wanting to replace my original GP24 Interstate batteries soon as they are just now starting to fall off on performance since being installed in the late 2008 time frame. Was really thinking about two battery groups of two each Trojan T-1275 to give me 300AHs of capacity at each location. The weight of these forces me into having two on the trailer tongue and two in the back of truck bed. Having tow different uses for batteries this fits my scheme rather well. Then I could add the two battery banks together when camping off the power grids and get up to 600AHs of capacity. The T-1275s don't come cheap for me...
This whole new for me setup may work better just using two banks of good ole cheaper GC2 COSTCO/SAMs CLUB 6V golf cart batteries.
Presently I do just fine using my three 12V 85Ah Interstates giving me 255AHs capacity so dropping that back to 220Ahs from two 6VDC batteries in series probably would fit my scheme of things with some changes to what we usually do when camping. I still would have the capability switching the two battery 220Ah banks together giving me a 440AHs capacity when camping where it really matters anyway.
Thanks for insight on how the T105s and T1275 need to be re-charged... I just assumed the 14.4 mode was all I needed for them. My on-board PD9260C Converter/Charger may indeed not support those two batteries like I was planning on doing. Maybe it will be just needing 4 hours to recharge verses needing 3 hours ??? I can live with that using the PD9260C being run by my 2KW Generator.
Thought I had it all nailed down hehe
Roy Ken
