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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"I am certainly not a 12v guru but it seems to me that any of us charging from the trucks alternator are doing this regularly . The truck and house batteries are almost never the same size or type battery ."
This never got answered, very relevant to most of our TC's, does this not matter because they are only all in parallel during charging, what about the trucks that have 12 volts at all times at the trailer connection.
This mixes, 6 volt Deep cycles in series, AGMS, Deep cycle flooded and Starter type batteries all in one big pile....
Will this damage the TC battery types over time, or just affect the efficiency
of the charging from the truck alternator...
This never got answered, very relevant to most of our TC's, does this not matter because they are only all in parallel during charging, what about the trucks that have 12 volts at all times at the trailer connection.
This mixes, 6 volt Deep cycles in series, AGMS, Deep cycle flooded and Starter type batteries all in one big pile....
Will this damage the TC battery types over time, or just affect the efficiency
of the charging from the truck alternator...
