time2roll wrote:
I have a truck and trailer. And since the trailer has solar I keep them connected. I have the Trik-L-Start connected over the truck isolation relay. Works perfect.
I think I have a good picture of how that would work...thanks!
Since I'm going solar on my RVs, I'm definitely going with this approach and just be done with it!
time2roll wrote:
20 watts might be too small for a large set of batteries or too large for a small start battery depending on how much sun you get. May want to monitor the situation a bit depending on conditions. I had 15w maintaining 4 batteries and it was never really enough even in sunny so cal.
I still am curious however (...would apply for my boat, or someone else reading this considering a trickle charger for their chassis battery...) for a ~20w trickle charge kit without a charge controller, is it okay to simply connect those clips to your chassis battery and leave it for weeks/months at a time? Is the current so weak (~1 amp) such that you don't need to ever worry about overcharging/etc?
