Hopefully this is a very easy one to answer.
If I have a lead-acid bank alongside my LFP, how do I set up the charging from both alternator and PV?
The MPPT controller I am planning on installing (Epever Tracer) can be configured for various battery types, but whilst it can handle two banks I don't think they can have different settings (might be wrong about this, still wading through the manuals etc). So I would probably have to just have the PV charging the LFP bank. I do already have a PWM controller- can I connect this to the same array of solar panels and use it to charge the lead-acids? Or just forget about that, and use a B2B charger from the LFPs.
I'm guessing that the alternator, maxing out at less than 14.4v, won't be likely to cause any harm to the LFP bank- but if the bank were disconnected, e.g. by the BMS, it could be very bad for the alternator itself. So probably best to only use alternator charging with the lead-acids in parallel, as a buffer/dump.
I'm sure this is a solved problem, but I'm struggling to find an obvious answer... still at the very early and confused stage of the learning process :D
If I have a lead-acid bank alongside my LFP, how do I set up the charging from both alternator and PV?
The MPPT controller I am planning on installing (Epever Tracer) can be configured for various battery types, but whilst it can handle two banks I don't think they can have different settings (might be wrong about this, still wading through the manuals etc). So I would probably have to just have the PV charging the LFP bank. I do already have a PWM controller- can I connect this to the same array of solar panels and use it to charge the lead-acids? Or just forget about that, and use a B2B charger from the LFPs.
I'm guessing that the alternator, maxing out at less than 14.4v, won't be likely to cause any harm to the LFP bank- but if the bank were disconnected, e.g. by the BMS, it could be very bad for the alternator itself. So probably best to only use alternator charging with the lead-acids in parallel, as a buffer/dump.
I'm sure this is a solved problem, but I'm struggling to find an obvious answer... still at the very early and confused stage of the learning process :D