Charge Divert [RE-wrenches]

[Ray Walters]

Hi,

Seems like the slight amp hour drain of the starter (possibly 10 seconds
once or twice a month)wouldn't require more than 150 mA trickle charge.
Check out the 1.5 watt module for $35 at A.E.E. whoops Applied Power. It
more than offsets the self discharge rate of the battery (even in cloudy
weather) and doesn't need a controller.

Ray Walters

 At 05:07 PM 12/8/00 -0800, you wrote:
>Greetings Wrenches,
>
>Any thoughts out there on good charge controllers that offer a charge
>divert option?  I'm putting a PV panel on the starter battery of that
>Onan Emerald 6,300 (thanks for your help there).  I am oversizing the
>panel to the little starter battery becasue I want to make sure the
>gen-set battery is there when needed (cloudy periods), but am
>essentially considering this to be a PV addition to the home
>system/battery.  In the past, I have used SunSelector's relay based
>charge controller when wanting to divert charge to another
>battery/load.  They seem to spend a lot of time switching back to the
>(starter) battery.  Just wondering about thoughts out there on good
>divert options.  I am also considering a "Simple Switch" that would
>simply hold the PV to the starter battery until voltage hits full charge
>(14.8ish?) and then have it switch to the house PV input circuit until
>further current to the little battery is actually needed (opps, seasonal
>temp swings).  Maybe the addition of a small cheap panel wired directly
>to the small battery so that the sunselector/simple switch doesn't bring
>the larger PV panel back to the starter battery unless the gen-set was
>run enough to pull down the starter battery or it has gotten really
>cloudy?  Sorry, I guess I'm sorta thinking on-line.
>
>Thanks - Kurt Nelson
>
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