Sunday, January 30, 2011

Re: [Electric Boats] multiple charging sources

 

Victor:
 
All my charging sources solar panels, wind turbine and battery charger all go to the same point to feed the battery. There is no problem in doing this but, the solar panels do go through a solar controller before they connect to the battery, the wind generator also has electronics that monitor the battery pack voltage and shut it down when the pack is fully charged (or another source like the solar panels is able to provide enough voltage to the batteries to keep it topped off).  Likewise for the charger.  They all are set up for the AGM batteries on board and have worked very well for the past three years.
 
Capt. Mike

--- On Sun, 1/30/11, vjmtymo <vjmtymo@yahoo.ca> wrote:

From: vjmtymo <vjmtymo@yahoo.ca>
Subject: [Electric Boats] multiple charging sources
To: electricboats@yahoogroups.com
Date: Sunday, January 30, 2011, 5:05 AM

 
Any opinions about running several charging/regen sources into the batteries simultaneously? Is there any special management of solar panels, prop regen, and a wind turbine all at once? They will all be supplying slightly different voltages (albeit above the battery voltage for a charge) but does it all average out on the battery end of things or am I missing a detail here? If there is a previous post/string on the subject, I'd appreciate the reference, thanks.

Victor

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