Cabin : Club Location : Gloucestershire Posts : 35 Join date : 2018-12-24
Subject: Solar panel question Sun Jan 10, 2021 2:53 pm
Hi, Probably a bit of a bone question here, but I can’t find a definitive answer elsewhere:
If you install fixed solar panels for charging the leisure battery, does it still charge from EHU and when driving as well? Or do you have to sacrifice the other means of charging the battery?
TimV Admin
Cabin : Flight 001 Location : Brighton, East Sussex U.K. Posts : 14343 Join date : 2009-09-27
Subject: Re: Solar panel question Sun Jan 10, 2021 4:46 pm
No. Why should it? The charge provided by the solars is a subsidiary element of the set-up.
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Glos263
Cabin : Club Location : Gloucestershire Posts : 35 Join date : 2018-12-24
Subject: Re: Solar panel question Sun Jan 10, 2021 5:10 pm
I’m not experienced with electrics at all. I didn’t think it would affect the current set up, just wanted to check.
Subject: Re: Solar panel question Mon Jan 11, 2021 4:59 pm
Glos263 wrote:
Hi, Probably a bit of a bone question here, but I can’t find a definitive answer elsewhere:
If you install fixed solar panels for charging the leisure battery, does it still charge from EHU and when driving as well? Or do you have to sacrifice the other means of charging the battery?
Hi Glos263,
with the set up that we have, the solar panels are a parallel charging system, so both they and the charging while driving can happen in parallel (as required).
(that's parallel in the side by side meaning, rather than the electrical meaning, if you get what I mean! )
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