6 Volt Batteries and Solar Charging
I have one of these NOCO 5 Watt Solar Battery maintainers. Assuming I have two 6 volt batteries in series to product 12 volts, am I correct that I would still use a 6 volt controller despite the fact ...
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My 10WATT small Solar Panel ZAMP-SOLAR Model ZS-M-10 0.56A MAX DC current that comes with the Torklift Battery box does not do well charging a 12VDC battery...
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I will say it does help a little bit as a trickle charger to keep the batteries up after they have been charged already... It will raise my 50% depleted charge state Battery DC voltage up to around 12.3-4 VDC sitting in the high sun during the long day with the battery still connected to the truck system with its parasitic drains still functioning.
It does not keep up very well with a couple of my DC Chargers plugged into the Truck 12VDC sockets keeping my cell phone and tablet peak charged for long periods of time listening to my Police Scanner frequencies during the same charging period. Keep in mind my 12VDC battery is all but dead as it is and started loosing its stay charged performance a year or so ago. It needs replaced big time hehe... But with the trickle charge it gets when sitting in my yard I can still get started each day to use the truck...
I sit it in the windshield dash area of my truck plugged into a 12VDC socket inside the truck.
These small wattage panels are worthless to me and I would not buy one to use except to trickle charge a battery setup after it has already been charged and just sitting there with no parasitic drains being pulled from it...
Just my thoughts here...
Roy Ken
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I will say it does help a little bit as a trickle charger to keep the batteries up after they have been charged already... It will raise my 50% depleted charge state Battery DC voltage up to around 12.3-4 VDC sitting in the high sun during the long day with the battery still connected to the truck system with its parasitic drains still functioning.
It does not keep up very well with a couple of my DC Chargers plugged into the Truck 12VDC sockets keeping my cell phone and tablet peak charged for long periods of time listening to my Police Scanner frequencies during the same charging period. Keep in mind my 12VDC battery is all but dead as it is and started loosing its stay charged performance a year or so ago. It needs replaced big time hehe... But with the trickle charge it gets when sitting in my yard I can still get started each day to use the truck...
I sit it in the windshield dash area of my truck plugged into a 12VDC socket inside the truck.
These small wattage panels are worthless to me and I would not buy one to use except to trickle charge a battery setup after it has already been charged and just sitting there with no parasitic drains being pulled from it...
Just my thoughts here...
Roy Ken
