Connecting Solar Panels To Battery Bank

We need 768 amp hours for our 12 volt solar installation.

Connecting solar panels to battery bank.

Connect battery to charge controller. It is important to wire this component first before you wire the solar panels. How to connect batteries. Solar charge controller keeps the solar panel from over charging your battery or batteries.

We are taking our new home off the grid. If you wire the solar panels to your charge controller first the fuse of the charge controller might blow. In the first step you are going to wire the battery to a charge controller. They are usually wired in parallel to preserve the voltage of each panel but you can also wire sets of them together in series to increase the voltage to conform to the voltage of the battery bank if need be.

If we connect in parallel we could have two 12 volt 400 amp hour batteries giving us 800 amp hours but keeping our 12 volt system. If we connect in series we could have 2 6 volt 800 amp hour giving us a 12 volt battery system with 800 amp hour capacity. Connecting my off grid solar battery bank.