Solar panel overkill?
I have been mentally designing a solar system for our small class C. I have 2 6 volt GC batteries and have no extra room to add more. I was originally thinking of installing a 24V 235 watt panel fro...
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NinerBikes wrote:
You may have one of those WFCO charger panels that hangs up and never drops down into "bulk" charge rate, staying at 13.6 V instead of really charging up quickly at 14.4V rate.
I have to run pretty much 3 hours on a generator to get a good 90% charge in the batteries, and if I had a way, I'd prefer 100% charge, but getting that last 10% charge is a lot easier with a simple PWM charger controller and solar panel than it is a generator to get to "float" charge level, or full 100%.
So what I've seen recommended by many here is to get the generator going for an hour or more, first thing in the morning, and then let the
solar panel do the topping off to full charge, the rest of the day.
Yes I do have a WFCO 8800 series power converter. Maybe that's part of the problem. Thanks, Jeff.
