No. The solar runs thru a step up comverter.
Mark F <mark.internet@yahoo.ca> wrote:
>do you have a solar for each battery?
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> From: R&M <fullkeel2000@yahoo.ca>
>To: electricboats@yahoogroups.com
>Sent: Monday, November 18, 2013 5:55:44 PM
>Subject: Re: [Electric Boats] RE: practicality ?
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>I charge a 2 packs that are in parallel with chargers that charge each battery as a 12 volt battery. This keeps them balanced. The solar trickle keeps them topped when sitting. My packs are set up tp discharge evenly so I figure the solar should not change the balance. Richard
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>Larry Doyle <ldoyle@triad.rr.com> wrote:
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>>Speaking of charging a battery pack, how does a battery charger charge a pack that is comprised of four 12 volt batteries in series paralleled with another set of four 12 volt batteries wired in series?
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>>From: jlwuja@gmail.com
>>Sent: Saturday, November 16, 2013 1:02 PM
>>To: electricboats@yahoogroups.com
>>Subject: [Electric Boats] RE: practicality ?
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>>Hello, Dependability? Practicality? Both, I guess, but more importantly, I fear some unforeseen calamity in which my batteries discharge to a level from which they cannot be restored. Is that a realistic concern? They thought of flushing the battery investment down the toilet is very frightening. Again, thanks for assistance. This is all new to me. John
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>>---In electricboats@yahoogroups.com, <sirdarnell@...> wrote:
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>>Actually a small solar panel just big enough to overcome self-discharge rates wouldn't need anything but a diode to prevent battery power back flowing to the panel.
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>> ---In electricboats@yahoogroups.com, <dominic.amann@...> wrote:
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>> A correctly sized solar panel with a suitable charge controller can provide safe maintenance charging for most battery setups without a hookup.
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>> On Thu, Nov 14, 2013 at 11:30 AM, <jlwuja@...> wrote:
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>> Good Day,
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>> I'm in the thought process of an electric repower of my boat. Most everything says I should convert based on numbers. One of the considerations, absenteeism, just hasn't been addressed in the sources that I've utilized.
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>> So here's the question, if an boat owner can't visit a boat for periods of time that could run up to two months on occasion coupled with more frequent absences lasting several weeks, is there a better battery choice to be made?
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>> In another two years or so, I should hope to be able to pay much more (almost daily) and long periods of absenteeism would virtually be eliminated.
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>> Should I wait to do the repower? I have a perfectly working diesel presently.
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>> Thanks for your informed responses. John
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>> Dominic Amann
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