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Bill Wright[_3_] Bill Wright[_3_] is offline
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Default Charging parallelled 12v car batteries "in situ"

On 14/12/2016 10:39, Brian Gaff wrote:
Personally I've found nothing but grief from car batteries in this mode.
Say one battery has a dodgy cell, the other battery then charges the duff
one until neither are very good.
If it were a low power use I'd say isolate them by diodes


Better to use relays.

Bill