My brother has a decent burger van business going and he would like to save some money from running a generator all the time by getting a leisure battery to run lights etc and a solar panel on the roof. Most of the setup has been discussed before but I have one question: If my brother wants to top up the battery from the generator, he can plug in a 240v mains charger. Does he have to isolate the solar circuit first? Cheers
I presume he is going to ‘top up’ the battery using a battery charger. So no need to isolate the solar panels.
Hi, Great - simple then. He was worried that the mains charger would damage the solar circuit. Thanks
No, it's how I have mine connected in the van, the mains charger is only going to kick out a max of 14v ish and the charge controller will stop that back feeding to the panels
