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Kd7vea
Explorer
Apr 13, 2020

What solar panels, and what charge controller do I need?

I’m hoping you can help me with this, or at lest point me in the right direction. I have a motorhome that I’m going to add solar panels to. I have 12 100ah gel cell batteries. These are alpha cell 1...
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KD4UPL
Explorer II
Apr 14, 2020
You need to look up the manufacturers specs for your batteries and see what the maximum charge current is. Until that happens we're all just guessing.

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