Solar port
Son in law has a Jayco that was wondering if you can use the solar plug on the side of a TT to plug a battery maintainer in? They have the same type plug.
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- check polarity! the zamp or whomever 'solar ready' side port for use with their portable suitcase/controller may be reverse polarity.
Boon Docker wrote:
No, the solar plug wiring does not go to the battery. It is wired to go to a solar charge controller.
You know this to be fact? :@ Coachmen is now installing a Furrion Solar Charging Port on many of their product lines which is wired directly to the battery. It's intended to be used with a small portable solar panel with a charge controller mounted directly to the panel. Rating is limited to ~ 10 amps. If the OP's Jayco is wired similarly, which I suspect it is, he certainly can use it for charging the battery as long as the charging rate is limited to no more than ~ 10 amps.- We have two of those solar ports.
One is on the side of the RV and goes directly to the battery and no where else (which is strange to me). My buddy who also has an AF product has the same setup.
The other is on the roof and its wires dead end behind the solar controller (it has tiny solar panel on the roof that came with the TT)
I think the only way your son is going to know is if he traces the wires or somebody else here has experience with Jayco solar stuff. - No, the solar plug wiring does not go to the battery. It is wired to go to a solar charge controller.
- What is the max for the solar plug? Or wire size?
What is the max for the maintainer?
Is the solar plug connected to the batteries or connectable to a solar controller?
Why not attach the maintainer directly to the batteries?
Elementary, my dear Watson.
