Adding Additional Solar to Charge Batteries for Boat
Hello Solar Gurus.
I currently have a Northstar 850 Pop up camper with solar. It has one Renology 150 watt panel that runs into a Renology CTRL-WND30 controller through a 10ga cable. This charges one deep cycle battery and does a wonderful job of keeping my house battery charged.
I have a matching Renology panel and controller sitting in the garage.
I spend a lot of time fishing and would like to charge additional batteries that power the trolling motor on my personal pontoon.
How would YOU set this up? I can add the second panel and run it through the existing controller and then set up the house battery and the aux battery using the "two battery" wiring system.
Or,
I can hook up the second panel, run it through the the new controller and have a "stand alone" charging system for the aux batteries.
The obvious advantage to hooking it up through the original system would be that the house battery would get 300 watts of solar when there is no "aux" battery in the system.
Any thoughts would be appreciated.
Bill
I currently have a Northstar 850 Pop up camper with solar. It has one Renology 150 watt panel that runs into a Renology CTRL-WND30 controller through a 10ga cable. This charges one deep cycle battery and does a wonderful job of keeping my house battery charged.
I have a matching Renology panel and controller sitting in the garage.
I spend a lot of time fishing and would like to charge additional batteries that power the trolling motor on my personal pontoon.
How would YOU set this up? I can add the second panel and run it through the existing controller and then set up the house battery and the aux battery using the "two battery" wiring system.
Or,
I can hook up the second panel, run it through the the new controller and have a "stand alone" charging system for the aux batteries.
The obvious advantage to hooking it up through the original system would be that the house battery would get 300 watts of solar when there is no "aux" battery in the system.
Any thoughts would be appreciated.
Bill
