Adding Solar Charger

[garymunson]

Am I correct the only proper way to add a solar trickle charger is to run a wire all the way to the house batteries? I would think I need to be on the 'battery side' of the coach battery disconnect relay. If not, turning off the coach batteries would also disconnect the charger. Wish Winnebago had prewired that.

[KD4UPL]

You can hook a "trickle charger" in to just about any circuit you want. There output is so small it won't matter much. Any circuit that stays live when you disconnect the battery switch will be fine.
Even a 10 watt solar panel puts out well under 1 amp.
In my opinion it's really not worth the effort. You might as well install a real solar panel, something like 100 watts minimum.

[MrWizard]

if you use the D.S.
then Yes, the solar must be connected to the batteries,
to maintain charge while is storage, with batteries disconnected from RV

[jhilley]

You are right, it would have to be on the battery side of the disconnect switch.

[2oldman]

You can add a trickle charger anywhere in any 12v circuit. It all ends up back at the battery.