Solar/Manual charging

Byrogie wrote:
Will be installing solar this week on our 5th wheel at a dry permanent site.
2x100 watt panels, 30 amp PWM controller
2x6 volt batteries
Questions:
1. Can I use a manual charger via generator while the solar is hooked up?
2. What happens when I hook up shore power via generator, converter(dumb) wise? Should I disconnect battery?
3. When I pull batteries for winter, do I just disconnect controller?

thx

1. yes, no conflict

2. no. you can run your 120v appliances in the rig up to the VA (watts) limit of the generator. the converter is another 120v load that's all. You might have to turn off the converter to run the microwave if the generator is small, but then the solar will still be charging the batts. You can run the converter, the maunual charger, and the solar all at once to add their amps for a fast charge if the batts will accept that many amps at the time.

Yes. The controller should not be running 12v loads without being connected to a battery. The sequence for connecting and disconnecting the controller from the battery is: connect to battery, then connect array to controller. And, first disconnect array from controller, then disconnect controller from battery.
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