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OregonTRX4
Explorer
Feb 05, 2014

Safe to leave solar hooked to batteries unattended?

I leave my trailer in a rural area where we camp with no hook ups. I have been looking into solar. A friend leaves his batteries hooked up to his solar and the batteries disconnected from the traile...
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wa8yxm
Explorer III
Feb 05, 2014
If you have a proper solar charge controller this is a very good way to do it, provided you hook up as follows

Solar panels==Controller===Batteries==Disconnect---RV

If you do not have a controller, it will not work.

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