Using Solar Panels To Charge Leisure Batteries

Dual battery bank having two independent batteries or sets of batteries performing different functions.

Using solar panels to charge leisure batteries.

After a full week the battery will be just about fully charged. Charge 100ah battery standard size solar panel is 58 inches by 27 inches 2 solar panel for 150 watts 12 volt each for 5 sunshine light hour takes to recharge 100ah 12 volt battery. Generally a fully discharged 12 volt 100ah battery needs 1200 watts of energy to be 100 recharged. I am looking to use a 12v battery during the night to run 2 lights a small fan and some small speakers.

Divide the wattage of the solar panel by the voltage of the battery to get the number of amps your charge connector needs to handle. Then take the battery capacity which measured in ah and divide it by the amp rating the result from prior computation of the solar panel and then adding 10 of the charging time to it. To wire two or more solar panels and batteries in parallel simply connect the positive terminal of solar panel or battery to the positive terminal of solar panel or battery and vise versa respectively as shown in the fig below. To charge a battery with a solar panel connect a charge connector to the solar panel.

This first stage starts when the sun shines or when the generator is turned on. My plan is to use a 400w inverter attached to the battery at night then use the solar panel to trickle charge the battery at night. The bulk phase first stage the bulk phase is primarily the initial stage of charging a battery using solar energy. Using this example you can see that it will take at least 100 watts of solar power to recharge a 100 amp hour battery in a few days.

Most likely a car battery possibly a marine gel battery. An example of this would be a start battery and an rv s house battery bank. The direct load can be directly powered up through solar power and a charge controller during the sunshine day time and during the shading night the dc load can be powered up using the battery. Assume you take a discharged 100 amp hour battery and charge it with a 30 watt solar panel under ideal summertime light conditions.

The bulk phase will initiate when the battery reaches a low charge stage and that is usually when the charge is below 80. I just bought a coleman 6w solar battery charger. A complete note on solar panel installation with calculation examples the dc load light fan etc is directly connected to the charge controller and can be fed up by two power sources. Then run wires from the battery to the charge connector making sure to match the positive and negative poles.

Solar array the solar array is the panel or set of panels.