I wonder if somebody out there who can help with the wiring of my house batteries .The battery charger and the Anderson plug seem to be connected to one battery .Then this battery is connected to the second battery (positive to positive negative to negative )by a separate wire .I want to attach an Anderson plug so that I can attach my portable solar panels do I connect the wires to one battery or positive on one battery and negative on the other
oldbobsbus said
01:47 PM Sep 25, 2014
Trevor law wrote:
I wonder if somebody out there who can help with the wiring of my house batteries .The battery charger and the Anderson plug seem to be connected to one battery .Then this battery is connected to the second battery (positive to positive negative to negative )by a separate wire .I want to attach an Anderson plug so that I can attach my portable solar panels do I connect the wires to one battery or positive on one battery and negative on the other
Simple answer YES..
I would also change the way the charger is connected so it is also going into one side of each battery as well and while you are at it take your power off the other 2 terminals
That way you are making sure both batteries come into play both going in and coming out..
oldtrack123 said
01:51 PM Sep 25, 2014
Trevor law wrote:
I wonder if somebody out there who can help with the wiring of my house batteries .The battery charger and the Anderson plug seem to be connected to one battery .Then this battery is connected to the second battery (positive to positive negative to negative )by a separate wire .I want to attach an Anderson plug so that I can attach my portable solar panels do I connect the wires to one battery or positive on one battery and negative on the other
HI Trevor
You can do it either way
The optimum way is to have the batterries & BOTH charging sources connected as Bob has posted
But the batterries are close together, heavy cable has been used for the interconnections, & you do not have heavy power loads ,
it will still be ok to connect the way ck to the way the charger has been done ,just connect the solar reg output pos to battery pos & solar neg to battery neg.
PeterQ
-- Edited by oldtrack123 on Thursday 25th of September 2014 01:54:21 PM
Trevor law said
08:43 AM Sep 26, 2014
Thanks for replying .I will definitely change the wiring this weekend .Thanks again ,and safe travels
Ballarat Bill said
02:45 PM Sep 28, 2014
Trev, Just to clarify that, to enable both batteries to be charged equally and share the load equally it it best practice to connect the two batteries together - red (pos) to red (pos) and black (Neg) to black (neg), thats paralled, and then connect any load or charger including the Solar to - red (pos) to red on one battery and the black (neg) to black (Neg) on the other battery.
Trevor law said
08:14 AM Sep 29, 2014
Thanks ,When we bought the van the wires from the charger and the Anderson plug from the tug both went to one battery .Then the second battery was wired (red to red black to black).I Asked the question last week because I thought it wasn't right so I have changed it to the wires from the tug and charger to the batteries are the red wires from each to one battery and the black to the other battery.iI have wired my Anderson plug for the portable panels (red to one battery and the black to the second battery ) I have set the cut off on the charger to 11 volts and the voltage output to 13.8 ,I hope this is right? The system seems to be working well we have not been free camping since I changed hope it will be ok .thanks for all your help
I wonder if somebody out there who can help with the wiring of my house batteries .The battery charger and the Anderson plug seem to be connected to one battery .Then this battery is connected to the second battery (positive to positive negative to negative )by a separate wire .I want to attach an Anderson plug so that I can attach my portable solar panels do I connect the wires to one battery or positive on one battery and negative on the other
Simple answer YES..
I would also change the way the charger is connected so it is also going into one side of each battery as well and while you are at it take your power off the other 2 terminals
That way you are making sure both batteries come into play both going in and coming out..
HI Trevor
You can do it either way
The optimum way is to have the batterries & BOTH charging sources connected as Bob has posted
But the batterries are close together, heavy cable has been used for the interconnections, & you do not have heavy power loads ,
it will still be ok to connect the way ck to the way the charger has been done ,just connect the solar reg output pos to battery pos & solar neg to battery neg.
PeterQ
-- Edited by oldtrack123 on Thursday 25th of September 2014 01:54:21 PM
Thanks for replying .I will definitely change the wiring this weekend .Thanks again ,and safe travels
Thanks ,When we bought the van the wires from the charger and the Anderson plug from the tug both went to one battery .Then the second battery was wired (red to red black to black).I Asked the question last week because I thought it wasn't right so I have changed it to the wires from the tug and charger to the batteries are the red wires from each to one battery and the black to the other battery.iI have wired my Anderson plug for the portable panels (red to one battery and the black to the second battery ) I have set the cut off on the charger to 11 volts and the voltage output to 13.8 ,I hope this is right? The system seems to be working well we have not been free camping since I changed hope it will be ok .thanks for all your help