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rbp111
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Aug 08, 2015

will solar keep the batteries charged

I had my fifth-wheel in for service and they kept it for over 8 weeks (another story). There was no electricity hooked up, so the batteries ran out.

My question is this. If I had, say a 150 Watt solar panel on the roof, and there was no use of the items except for the ones such as the parasitic types, would the batteries have gone "out". I have no knowledge of solar equipment, obviously.

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  • You can gain knowledge of solar by reading posts about it on here.
  • That depends on what the parasitic loads are and weather conditions. Then again if they didn't need those systems running, you could have charged the batteries and disconnected them.
  • Yes, a 150W solar panel will keep your batteries charged (as long as it has sunlight on it).

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