HenltonGomes
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Do you just connect BOTH the solar controller AND the converter to your flooded lead acid batteries? Don't they need to "talk" to each other?
Considering adding solar to my motorhome. Maybe I'm overthinking it.... but I felt like having both the solar and the converter directly connected to the batteries was "not ideal". For example, if you plugin to shore power and the converter is pushing a huge amount of amps into the batteries, do you really want solar also "contributing"? Or... when both solar and converter are charging the battery, won't they kind of "mismatch" on what mode they are doing (bulk/float/etc).
I thought that solar charge controllers would all have a input to know that shore power is applied, so don't even try to charge anything in that case.
Or maybe both the converter and the solar controller both are monitoring the battery bank voltage and therefore "communicating" by just watching the applied voltage.
What is the typical setup like?
Considering adding solar to my motorhome. Maybe I'm overthinking it.... but I felt like having both the solar and the converter directly connected to the batteries was "not ideal". For example, if you plugin to shore power and the converter is pushing a huge amount of amps into the batteries, do you really want solar also "contributing"? Or... when both solar and converter are charging the battery, won't they kind of "mismatch" on what mode they are doing (bulk/float/etc).
I thought that solar charge controllers would all have a input to know that shore power is applied, so don't even try to charge anything in that case.
Or maybe both the converter and the solar controller both are monitoring the battery bank voltage and therefore "communicating" by just watching the applied voltage.
What is the typical setup like?
