Have been following various threads on here about B2B chargers or alternator/battery chargers and have ended up confusing myself (actually, not that difficult). Our 2012 Bailey has only one leisure battery, a Varta 105ah. There is a 120w solar panel that feeds to a dual controller so that the engine battery and leisure battery receive a charge, weather permitting.
We stay on a mixture of aires with no ehu and campsites with ehu. Due to cost, we want to minimise the amount of time spent on paid sites. Because we have only the one leisure battery, we feel a little vulnerable if we have a few days of cold overcast weather and so head for a site with ehu. From some of the posts, it seems that fitting a B2B charger won't bring much to the table in terms of charging capacity but our situation seems by other posts to be the very reason to fit a B2B. I am unclear how such a charger would interrelate with the solar charger. The latter is a Sunworks dual controller and has worked very well. We recently bought a brand new Varta leisure battery and are currently enjoying a stay on a Portuguese site with ehu. But from Monday we are moving east to Spain but will not be doing long drives, so there will be little charging by the alternator. In these circumstances, would a charger be a useful addition?
Many thanks.
We stay on a mixture of aires with no ehu and campsites with ehu. Due to cost, we want to minimise the amount of time spent on paid sites. Because we have only the one leisure battery, we feel a little vulnerable if we have a few days of cold overcast weather and so head for a site with ehu. From some of the posts, it seems that fitting a B2B charger won't bring much to the table in terms of charging capacity but our situation seems by other posts to be the very reason to fit a B2B. I am unclear how such a charger would interrelate with the solar charger. The latter is a Sunworks dual controller and has worked very well. We recently bought a brand new Varta leisure battery and are currently enjoying a stay on a Portuguese site with ehu. But from Monday we are moving east to Spain but will not be doing long drives, so there will be little charging by the alternator. In these circumstances, would a charger be a useful addition?
Many thanks.