I recently purchased a Honda 2000 watt generator as a backup to our solar charging system for longer trips and winter camping. Not sure if I'm being overly cautious with these questions, but having just installed a new solar panel this year and putting 200 amp hours worth of new batteries in last year I really don't want to blow anything up and have to spend more on my electrical!
If I plug the generator into the shore power outlet on the camper does this charge go through the same charge controller as the solar system? (To my knowledge it is the stock charge controller for my 2015 Hawk, looks like this https://www.emarineinc.com/Blue-Sky-Solar-Boost-1524iX-MPPT-Charge-Controller)
If so are the combined input of both the 200w panel and generator likely to overload the controller or system in any way?
I plan to put another panel on top for a total of 375 watts, would this potentially overload the system with the generator added in?
Please excuse my lack of electrical savvy.
Thanks!
If I plug the generator into the shore power outlet on the camper does this charge go through the same charge controller as the solar system? (To my knowledge it is the stock charge controller for my 2015 Hawk, looks like this https://www.emarineinc.com/Blue-Sky-Solar-Boost-1524iX-MPPT-Charge-Controller)
If so are the combined input of both the 200w panel and generator likely to overload the controller or system in any way?
I plan to put another panel on top for a total of 375 watts, would this potentially overload the system with the generator added in?
Please excuse my lack of electrical savvy.
Thanks!