Switching To 6 Volt
I'm planning on switching the house side of the Sahara over to 4 - 6 volts golf cart batteries this spring. Either T-105s or Interstate. I'm also planning on adding another 100 watts of solar to the ...
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SoundGuy wrote:jplante4 wrote:
Edit: This is something I'm planning to do myself.
Perhaps you shouldn't considering you don't seem to grasp the basic math involved here. ;) With a single battery or two and a small solar panel, say 100 watts, installation is pretty elemental but once you start upgrading to a bank of batteries, a significantly sized solar panel system, a suitably sized controller, and wiring suitable for the task you really need to understand exactly what it is you're doing and why, otherwise you could end up wasting a lot of $$$$ on a system that doesn't achieve what you expect it will. :(
Yeah I hear ya, but the local shop charges $140 per hour shop rate and they're notoriously slow. If I wanted them top do this, I would have needed to get into the queue last November. There are plenty of YouTube videos by people who have done this. In addition to all this stuff, I need to clean up, paint and lube the battery tray, and seeing that the chassis batteries were replaced at the same time as the house batteries, I might as well do them while their out.
I was really just curious about the isolator and if I could get by with the one I have. I already have "a bank of batteries", just 12 V instead of 6. If I'm following the math, I'm really not adding that much capacity switching to 6v, so I may just say screw it and do 12V AGMs and stop carrying around distilled water.
