Combining battery sizes in parallel.
Hi everyone. Old member that has been on a long hiatus. Our day has come and we are now retired so I am fortifying the camper with extra power in the form of solar panels and batteries. I removed t...
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We camp alot off-grid using our batteries. Can do alot of things every day but by 8AM the next morning will want to recharge my batteries from their 50% charge state back up to the 90% charge state so we can do all of this all over again for the next day/night battery run.
I haven't gone with solar yet but having my small 2KW generator around is a must have item for me. It works rain or shine and even on cloudy days for sure haha...
With my setup and small area for solar panels I probably would only get a solar benefit of reducing my use of the small generator down to perhaps one hour a day verses the three hour run to get past the 50AMPS plus DC charging current demand of the batteries for the initial re-charge procedure. Then the solar panels could continue giving me the batteries charge demand of 6-8AMPs for remaining of high sun for the day perhaps...
Not having a generator around would not be a good idea in my setup. Got to have a good PLAN B here...
My new battery bank I am working on will be two groups of 6VDC Trojans GC2 batteries in series to give me around 480AHs capacity...
I too have not had good luck charging different batteries at the same time using the same charger. What I do here is use the on-board converter/charger PD9260C 60AMP Smart mode unit for the main battery group and then use my portable B&D VEC1093DBD 40AMP smart mode charger for the external batteries I sometimes carry with me for backup.
Roy Ken
I haven't gone with solar yet but having my small 2KW generator around is a must have item for me. It works rain or shine and even on cloudy days for sure haha...
With my setup and small area for solar panels I probably would only get a solar benefit of reducing my use of the small generator down to perhaps one hour a day verses the three hour run to get past the 50AMPS plus DC charging current demand of the batteries for the initial re-charge procedure. Then the solar panels could continue giving me the batteries charge demand of 6-8AMPs for remaining of high sun for the day perhaps...
Not having a generator around would not be a good idea in my setup. Got to have a good PLAN B here...
My new battery bank I am working on will be two groups of 6VDC Trojans GC2 batteries in series to give me around 480AHs capacity...
I too have not had good luck charging different batteries at the same time using the same charger. What I do here is use the on-board converter/charger PD9260C 60AMP Smart mode unit for the main battery group and then use my portable B&D VEC1093DBD 40AMP smart mode charger for the external batteries I sometimes carry with me for backup.
Roy Ken
