I'm new to this forum, I am on expedition portal alot and was sent here to get some ideas for my four wheel camper project.
I was recently on a 5 day trip and my batteries would not hold a charge or charge at all, not sure what is the issue yet. I have a 80 watt solar panel connected to a trace charge controller and 2 optima yellow to batteries, this was all done by the previous owner. I have installed a older Norcold TEK 2 fridge and new lights and now I can't go a full day without the batteries dead.I am in the planning stage of redoing the inside of the camper and I will be useing a ARB chest type fridge rather then the standard fridge. I need to know about hooking up the solar panel inline with a shore power charger and I wil also being running a wire from the engine to charge while driving, this wil give me 3 modes of charging capability.
I know how to do all the wiring etc but what I am unsure of is how do I isolate the charge controller, 110 charger, and onbord charger?
I attempted something simular on my last project; I wired in a charge controller and dual battery system on my truck but the first time I started the truck it fried the solar controller?!
I was recently on a 5 day trip and my batteries would not hold a charge or charge at all, not sure what is the issue yet. I have a 80 watt solar panel connected to a trace charge controller and 2 optima yellow to batteries, this was all done by the previous owner. I have installed a older Norcold TEK 2 fridge and new lights and now I can't go a full day without the batteries dead.I am in the planning stage of redoing the inside of the camper and I will be useing a ARB chest type fridge rather then the standard fridge. I need to know about hooking up the solar panel inline with a shore power charger and I wil also being running a wire from the engine to charge while driving, this wil give me 3 modes of charging capability.
I know how to do all the wiring etc but what I am unsure of is how do I isolate the charge controller, 110 charger, and onbord charger?
I attempted something simular on my last project; I wired in a charge controller and dual battery system on my truck but the first time I started the truck it fried the solar controller?!