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Old 22-10-2014, 08:20 PM
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Originally Posted by strongmanmike View Post
Ok so I have a great 12V solar battery system working very well at the observatory....

I want to use a smaller 40ahr SLA battery..... to power the Dob outside.

My question is: When I leave of a night, is it safe to simply connect the smaller battery to the two larger batteries (in parallel) and have it charged and maintained with them and leave it unattended in this way?
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Cheers for any feedback
Mike
Just run a seperate small 7.5Amp solar regulator direct from panels to the 40Ah battery
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