Has anyone added solar panels to their existing system? My documentation the came from the factory did not contain any information about the panel that came with the rig. I would like to better understand what I have and how to improve on it. There is nothing on the house batteries either. I have been looking at the battle born batteries lithium ion batteries too and may upgrade to those in the future. Any ideas where I can find information that I am missing?
What I did can be found here. (https://www.rvforum.net/threads/my-new-rv-is-a.134644/post-1249253)
As for the solar, add anything you want, just use a different solar controller to the battery. I add external solar to BOTH of my house batteries when boondocked. One for the stock lead acids and the other for the lith I added as shown in the link above. That means I have a total of three solar controllers. two plus the stock.
-Don- Reno, NV
Thanks, you are way ahead of me! I just want to know wha the setting are supposed to be on the Firefly control panel in the coach with what I have for now. I am so darn confused on upgrading anything at the moment. I have the basisc AGM batteries and decided to wait until those are toast before I do anything else. I did add two more 190 Watt panels for a total of 3. But, I do not know if they are working! The Firefly panel was not set up correctly (set at GEL for the batteries and many other setting were incorrect) but the output shows 0 for watts. I am still digging into into though. La Mesa RV in Sanford FL has had the coach twice to figure out was the issue is and have had it for about 3 months total time, but it is still not set up correctly. The Winegard Connect has never work either.