Juliet 15
Senior Member
Greetings, all. Thanks to all for providing correction and suggestions to my last post ("Possible?"). I more appropriately named this one, and have a new idea/proposal for expanding my current battery bank.
I have a house bank of four 6v/230Ah FLA batteries, with each of the 2 pairs connected in series (to produce 12v) and the two 12v pairs connected in parallel (460Ah) to my inverter.
I want to add a 2nd almost identical bank of four 6v/415Ah AGM batteries, connected identically (two 12v pairs in connected in parallel for 830Ah.
Looking at my scribble-gram, I'm thinking I could use of of the large battery selector knobs to separate the banks. Does anyone see problems doing this? Essentially, I'd use one house bank, say the FLA bank (bank 1), down to its 50% limit, then switch to the AGM bank (bank 2) which allows use down to approx 80%.
Thanks again in advance.
I have a house bank of four 6v/230Ah FLA batteries, with each of the 2 pairs connected in series (to produce 12v) and the two 12v pairs connected in parallel (460Ah) to my inverter.
I want to add a 2nd almost identical bank of four 6v/415Ah AGM batteries, connected identically (two 12v pairs in connected in parallel for 830Ah.
Looking at my scribble-gram, I'm thinking I could use of of the large battery selector knobs to separate the banks. Does anyone see problems doing this? Essentially, I'd use one house bank, say the FLA bank (bank 1), down to its 50% limit, then switch to the AGM bank (bank 2) which allows use down to approx 80%.
Thanks again in advance.