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OregonTRX4
Explorer
Feb 05, 2014

Safe to leave solar hooked to batteries unattended?

I leave my trailer in a rural area where we camp with no hook ups. I have been looking into solar. A friend leaves his batteries hooked up to his solar and the batteries disconnected from the traile...
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pianotuna
Nomad III
Feb 06, 2014
Hi RJ,

I could not disagree more. Top of the line solar controllers do a far superior job to any of the plug in converters that I am aware of. Solar is ideal for long term maintenance charging.

RJsfishin wrote:
But having said and read everything, given a choice of battery maintaining methods (including a quality converter) while long term unattended, solar would be a last resort !

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