Connect battery to charge controller.
Connecting solar panels to battery bank.
Always connect the rv house battery bank to the first battery position as it will receive the full charge before the second battery begins to charge.
We are taking our new home off the grid.
Solar charge controller keeps the solar panel from over charging your battery or batteries.
Connecting my off grid solar battery bank.
Here are a few of the terms that are important to know when solar charging two battery banks.
If you wire the solar panels to your charge controller first the fuse of the charge controller might blow.
If we connect in series we could have 2 6 volt 800 amp hour giving us a 12 volt battery system with 800 amp hour capacity.
We need 768 amp hours for our 12 volt solar installation.
How to connect batteries.
If we connect in parallel we could have two 12 volt 400 amp hour batteries giving us 800 amp hours but keeping our 12 volt system.
It is important to wire this component first before you wire the solar panels.