Parasitic Draw on RV?
I am getting ready to add a small solar system to the top of my 5er to keep the batteries topped off when we leave the camper at the lake for extended periods. My wife and I generally pull the camper ...
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The controller should go where the converter is if possible, up near the batteries. Controller to battery and converter to battery in parallel to the same battery posts. Or you can run the controller wires over to the converter's output terminals, which then share the wires going to the battery.
You don't need to see the controller display from inside unless you are "easily entertained", and you can get some of that solar info from your Trimetric display inside anyway.
If you get a battery monitor like Trimetric with the 500a shunt, now all your negs go to that instead of to the battery including the solar's and converter's, and the previous frame to battery neg wire.
This can affect the length of the various neg wires and how you do your neg buss bar if any. So make the decision to go with a Trimetric (or Victron) before you get too far along.
You don't need to see the controller display from inside unless you are "easily entertained", and you can get some of that solar info from your Trimetric display inside anyway.
If you get a battery monitor like Trimetric with the 500a shunt, now all your negs go to that instead of to the battery including the solar's and converter's, and the previous frame to battery neg wire.
This can affect the length of the various neg wires and how you do your neg buss bar if any. So make the decision to go with a Trimetric (or Victron) before you get too far along.
