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Dakota98
Explorer
Dec 14, 2014

Solar as battery maintenance during storage - opinions

Having suffered a neck injury, it has become difficult to lift anything 25 lbs or more & attempting to remove my batteries from the tongue of my TT is difficult at best. Currently, I keep them in the ...
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pianotuna
Nomad III
Dec 15, 2014
Hi,

As the batteries get older, self discharge rates go up. 1% per day is quite possible. The greatest problem is getting from 90% to 100% state of charge. It make take as much charging time as it does to get from 50% to 90% to do so.

Only two ways make sense for that. Shore power is one, and solar is the other.

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