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Hippajac Amp Draw

ajriding
Explorer II
Explorer II
Anyone know the amperage draw of the power TC Hippajac lifts? For one or for four, but specify so we know…

I am wondering what amp charger controller to buy. 10 or 20? The lifts will be the biggest draw as I have another battery bank for the ele frig.

I guess I could wire the battery power straight to the fuse box, but usually the power would go through the charge controller and then to the fuse box.

Backstory. I have 200 watts going to a dedicated battery bank just for the frig. completely isolated from the rest of the camper.

The regular one battery in the camper will power everything else (Hippajac lifts, lights, fans, blower, phone and inverter which I have never yet used.) It has 100w solar charging it. I just ordered the parts, so will install soon.

Typical wiring is to have solar go to controller. Battery go to controller, and controller to output to the fuse box (load). Does it matter if I just send battery straight to the fuse box while at the same time straight to the battery terminals on the charge controller? Then the only amps to worry about would be the solar coming in, solar is low amps.

I dont want to pull the hippajac wiring to go to battery. Im trying to minimize the wire changes.
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mbloof
Explorer
Explorer
The AMP rating on charge controller depends on the AMP/WATTS of the solar panel(s).
Most cases leave current wiring alone and when adding solar + charge controller your simply wiring from the panel to the controller and from the controller to the battery. (IE: Charge controller, solar battery charge controller)
Many controllers have a fairly useless "load" set of terminals. In some cases this is for when the battery is fully charged and you really really don't want to waste the extra energy captured by your panel(s). The extra power can be routed to the "load".
In other cases the "load" is intended to be your RV. However most RV's also have a AC/DC converter/charger which feeds 120VAC and 12VDC loads.