Thanks for your insight so far. I don't know the wattage of the solar off the top of my head, but I've asked my friend and should hear back soon -- I think it's around 250W.
Simply attaching the batteries to each other is not an option, as they will be in various states of charge and they will attempt to equalize with each other, which could result in massive currents, battery damage, releasing of explosive hydrogen gas, etc... I think I wasn't clear on one potentially important point -- these boat batteries are each for a different boat, they don't make up one bank in a single boat; as such they'll see different levels of discharge, and in fact some will be charging while others are being used. Basically, I don't want any battery to be charged off any other battery, only the solar charger. Given that the panels output trivial amounts of power when it's cloudy (or night
) I think some automated combining method is required. The echo-charge and similar might work if there was one between each battery, but then we have to educate the users (people staying at the cabin) that they have to plug the batteries in in a certain order and they'll charge in a certain order (I think?)
Maine Sail, why are you averse to multi-bank chargers?
Thanks!
Simply attaching the batteries to each other is not an option, as they will be in various states of charge and they will attempt to equalize with each other, which could result in massive currents, battery damage, releasing of explosive hydrogen gas, etc... I think I wasn't clear on one potentially important point -- these boat batteries are each for a different boat, they don't make up one bank in a single boat; as such they'll see different levels of discharge, and in fact some will be charging while others are being used. Basically, I don't want any battery to be charged off any other battery, only the solar charger. Given that the panels output trivial amounts of power when it's cloudy (or night
Maine Sail, why are you averse to multi-bank chargers?
Thanks!