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Originally Posted by Troutman
Yeah I'm aware of AGM idiosyncrasies mate, I think my problem is I haven't been driving as much as usual. I'll keep an eye on voltage for the time being and charge the battery if it drops much. But your setup sounds the goods. Can you recommend appropriate solar panel size and power regulation needs?
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If just keeping a battery topped up those 2w battery charging panels are the simplest as they just need to be put in the sun and connected to a battery.. On my old Colorado I had 120w panel on roof and a 10amp PWM solar controller inside and it kept the battery good for the fridge, the controller must be able to select AGM/Gel, Calcium though or it my use wrong charging regime....
The one on my shed for boat battery is a 200w house panel so 46v (not 22v like a caravan panel) so needs a controller that can handle that voltage, I happened to have one from a van, the cheapies are usually good for about 30v DC.... it just plugs into the boat battery with an anderson plug and does its thing so I don;t have to stuff around with it.....
