Hi,

Here's S's solar panel page, FWIW.  He warns that needs to update it
with some minor mechanical improvements.

http://www.oddstray.com/solar/

B&S
'87 Westy 'Esmerelda Blanc'
SoCal

On Wed, 18 Jul 2007 10:09:53 -0700, you wrote:

>I was thinking of solar etc. just last night.
>
>If I were to set up solar, I'd install a cig lighter socket to accept
>input from either a battery charger or solar. Each charge source would
>be wired with a male cig plug. Not sure if a standard cig socket would
>handle higher input amps. Maybe other type of socket? (though cig
>socket would be handy as it would obviously provide a standard
>interface for 12V appliances)
>
>One socket = only input from either panel or charger, but not both at
>once. As for alternator.....
>
>Isn't the electronic isolater set up so that if alt input "seen" and
>sent to aux batt. then other sources are blocked?
>
>Neil.
>
>--
>Neil Nicholson. 1981 Air Cooled Westfalia.
>
>http://web.mac.com/tubaneil
>
>On 7/18/07, Loren Busch <starwagen@gmail.com> wrote:
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>> Right now I have wiring in place for three ways to charge my aux battery.
>>  First, and permanently connected, is the alternator when engine is running.
>>  The next two are wired right now so that only one can be connected at a
>>  time: Solar charge controller (and solar panel) and an onboard 30 amp
>>  'smart' charger.
>>  Question: What kind of problems, if any, would I encounter if all three
>>  were connected to the battery at the same time? Assuming that only one
>>  would ever be running at any time, would I expect problems such as the
>> solar
>>  controller seeing the voltage from the 110v ac charger and causing damage?
>>  Or the solar controller seeing the voltage from the alternator and having
>>  problems? Or any other combination that should be avoided? Just to be
>>  careful I'm now set up so that the solar and the 110v ac charger can't be
>>  connected to the battery at the same time but the ideal system would be to
>>  have them permanently wired in.
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