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Old 22-11-2008, 08:47 PM
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Lee,

Depending on the panels capacity and its charging voltage and mechanism, you may be able to put a diode in series with each charging feed.
That way the batteries are isolated form one another, but can be charged.

The diode will have a 0.7v drop so this may cause problems, in any event if the charging circuitry requires voltage sensing of the battery then this may be a problem.
At least make sure the batteries of the same type of battery - say SLA.

If it were me - I would buy a second charger or make a dedicated circuit to handle the charging depending on what is in the system you have.


Cheers
Rally

PS forgot it was solar !
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