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Dirtpig
Explorer
Dec 01, 2015

solar charging question - adding additional battery

I am wondering what would be the negative effects of temporarily hooking up and solar charging a 50% depleted battery to my fully charged battery bank of 2 6volts. (Boat electric motor battery) woul...
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KD4UPL
Explorer II
Dec 01, 2015
It will work. If you only need to do it once then go ahead. It's not an ideal way to charge the battery.
You'd be better off disconnecting the solar from the existing bank and hooking it just to the boat battery for a while.

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