pbuck00
Bucky
Greetings. I have a system currently at home so I am not a total newbie... but it is a fairly straight forward system.... now plotting on to upgrade an RV I have coming next month.
It comes with a gopower package....200 watt panel on the roof/solar charge controller/1000 watt go power inverter/standard RV type power converter and probably the cheapest 12 volt battery they can find.
Current plans:
Swap out stock battery for 350 AH of lithium battery bank (2 Big Battery 12volt Owl)
swap 1000 inverter/power converter for Victron multiplus 3000 12V
RV comes with a go power PWM. without actually seeing the specs yet, I figure I could put an additional 400 watts of panels into this.. but I am nervous about punching a bunch of holes in a brand new roof.. so going with 2 200 watt flexible panels and using VHB on all four sides.. giving me 600 watts on the roof.
Today's question is on Solar Charge controllers. I am pretty sure I can't just connect the new flexible panels into the existing solar controller.. way different specs on the panels. But can I put a second solar charge controller (Victron) and connect both the existing system (gopower controller with 200 watt rigid panel) and the new system (Victron controller with 2 200 watt flexibles) to the same battery bank and let the batteries get their power from where ever they want?
Along the same lines, since I am planning on heavy boondocking usage.. down the road I may add a Renogy DC/DC charge, which would also give me an option of adding a charge from by tow vehicle and a set of portable panels I can set up away from the RV. Again feeding into the same battery bank.
My other option is to just add to the battery bank up to 500 AH, which would probably do me for quite a while boondocking (without using AC/TV).
Which way I go depends on if I can mix and match charge controllers into the battery bank, as costs seem to balance out.
Opinions ??
Thank you
It comes with a gopower package....200 watt panel on the roof/solar charge controller/1000 watt go power inverter/standard RV type power converter and probably the cheapest 12 volt battery they can find.
Current plans:
Swap out stock battery for 350 AH of lithium battery bank (2 Big Battery 12volt Owl)
swap 1000 inverter/power converter for Victron multiplus 3000 12V
RV comes with a go power PWM. without actually seeing the specs yet, I figure I could put an additional 400 watts of panels into this.. but I am nervous about punching a bunch of holes in a brand new roof.. so going with 2 200 watt flexible panels and using VHB on all four sides.. giving me 600 watts on the roof.
Today's question is on Solar Charge controllers. I am pretty sure I can't just connect the new flexible panels into the existing solar controller.. way different specs on the panels. But can I put a second solar charge controller (Victron) and connect both the existing system (gopower controller with 200 watt rigid panel) and the new system (Victron controller with 2 200 watt flexibles) to the same battery bank and let the batteries get their power from where ever they want?
Along the same lines, since I am planning on heavy boondocking usage.. down the road I may add a Renogy DC/DC charge, which would also give me an option of adding a charge from by tow vehicle and a set of portable panels I can set up away from the RV. Again feeding into the same battery bank.
My other option is to just add to the battery bank up to 500 AH, which would probably do me for quite a while boondocking (without using AC/TV).
Which way I go depends on if I can mix and match charge controllers into the battery bank, as costs seem to balance out.
Opinions ??
Thank you